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Yale University · Psychology

4.8% of Yale University's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Yale University: 4.8% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

20%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

PSYC 342 · Psychology of Gender97

Psychology

This course explores the historical relationship between the "mind sciences" and dominant gender notions, ideologies, and norms. Students will critically examine the historical role that psychology and related fields have played in…

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PSYC 695 · History of Psychology: Racism and Colonial Power85

Psychology

This course examines the history of psychology with a focus on racism and colonial power embedded in psychology and the psychological sciences more broadly. Students will grapple with primary and secondary sources which prompt them to think…

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PSYC 127 · Theory and Practice of Early Childhood Education62

Psychology

The course deals with development and delivery of curricula for young children ages 3-6 and the current context of educational reform and debate. Goals are to deepen insights through critical analysis of educational programs for young…

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Furthest right

None. Yale University Psychology has 5 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
Yale University · Psychologybias_left_share4.8—104—
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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