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Wesleyan University · Psychology

13.2% of Wesleyan University's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Wesleyan University: 13.2% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

5%Far left92–100
21%Left75–91
63%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
19 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

PSYC 330 · Engaging Antiracist Psychological Science: From History and Theory to Practice92

Psychology

Responding to calls for antiracist psychological science, this seminar explores what it means to design and conduct that science. What does it mean to conduct "antiracist" studies that "decenter whiteness"? The exploration of scientific…

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PSYC 293 · Towards Antiracist Psychological Science85

Psychology

What does it mean to conduct "antiracist" studies that "decenter whiteness"? What investigative practices are warranted and what scientific foundations are necessary for doing innovative, antiracist research? This course takes up these…

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PSYC 216 · Research Methods in Diversity Science75

Psychology

This course introduces students to the research methods important to conducting scientific inquiry into topics related to inequality, oppression, and disparities in life outcomes across a broad range of experiences of marginalization (e.g.,…

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Furthest-right subjects

PSYC 318 · Culture and Subjectivity25

Psychology

This is a course about neoliberal culture, its distinctive social and psychological characteristics, and possible alternative conceptions of the social and forms of subjectivity in the 21st century. Neoliberalism is a contested signifier…

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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
Wesleyan University · Psychologybias_left_share13.2—114—
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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