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University of Virginia · Psychology

4.3% of University of Virginia'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 Virginia: 4.3% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

PSYC 4650 · Oppression and Social Change78

Psychology

Oppression and Social Change focuses on an analysis of oppression, empowerment and liberation as defined within an ecological system perspective. Topics to be covered include discussion of racial, economic, sexual discrimination, individual…

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PSYC 7480 · Critical Perspectives for Psychological Reseach75

Psychology

In this graduate seminar, we will take a close look at concepts and theoretical perspectives emerging from and guiding the field of community psychology including empowerment, resilience, critical race theory, Black feminism,…

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PSYC 7485 · Structural Determinants of Inequality72

Psychology

This course focuses on the structural underpinnings of modern inequality in the United States. Particular attention will be paid to intersections of race and class and the systematic construction of unequal opportunity over time.

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Furthest right

None. University of Virginia Psychology has 8 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 Virginia · Psychologybias_left_share4.3—186—
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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