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University of Notre Dame · Psychology

1.9% of University of Notre Dame's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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University of Notre Dame: 1.9% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
20%Far right0–8
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

PSY 34300 · Personality and Philosophy75

Psychology

Intoduction to personality theory; Philosophical questions relevant to psychology. Some of the topics covered will include: 1. Overview of the mind-body problem 2. Dualism 3. Logical behaviorism 4. Mind-brain identity theories 5.…

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PSY 30696 · Mind and Society: Cognitive Science and Justice73

Psychology

This course explores the interaction of thinking and action for justice, of cognitive science and social change. In this contested moment, how might we examine the ideas with which we think as we envision social transformation and work…

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PSY 30693 · Poverty, Resilience and Education67

Psychology

This seminar will allow advanced students to research youth poverty and educational access/success informed by related justice questions (e.g., racial equality, incarceration). Students will draw from youth development theory, educational…

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Furthest-right subjects

PSY 34631 · Negative Attitudes: Cultural, Historical, & Social Psychological Analysis of Racism in South Africa0

Psychology

This course provides a basic overview of the social psychological principles that describe and explain the development and functions of attitudes (beliefs-stereotypes, feelings-prejudice, and behavior-discrimination) and how these influence…

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Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Notre Dame · Psychologybias_left_share1.9—162—
Psychologybias_left_share2.52.2 – 2.89,330—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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