Psychology
This course broadly surveys core conceptual and applied issues in lifespan developmental psychology. It covers human development during infancy, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, middle adulthood, and old age. Attention is also…
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American University · Psychology
1.2% of American University's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.
0%30%
Where Psychology courses fall
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Psychology
This seminar reviews theory and research relevant to the formation and effect of stereotypes and all forms of intergroup prejudice. It relies primarily on the findings of experimental research in social psychology to analyze how prejudice…
Furthest-right subjects
None. American University Psychology has 2 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American University · Psychology | bias_left_share | 1.2 | — | 85 | — |
| Psychology | bias_left_share | 2.5 | 2.2 – 2.8 | 9,330 | — |
- 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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