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Davidson College · Psychology

15% of Davidson College's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Davidson College: 15% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
89%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
11%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
9 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 200 · Research Design and Statistics: 167

Psychology

Instructor Eiler, Salter, Flaherty, Gadaire, Good This course will introduce students to scientific thinking, with a specific focus on how scientific understanding manifests in psychology, neuroscience, and interdisciplinary research across…

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PSY 269 · Black Psychology67

Psychology

Instructor Salter The purpose of this course is to critically examine psychological concepts, theories, and methods from perspectives grounded in the "Black experience." We will examine psychological phenomena and issues that emerge in the…

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PSY 353 · Advanced Seminar: Psychology of Prejudice67

Psychology

Instructor Good This course explores current psychological theory and research regarding stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. We will discuss stereotype formation and activation, current and past conceptualizations of prejudice,…

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Furthest-right subjects

PSY 402 · History and Systems in Psychology17

Psychology

Instructor Salter This course is designed to facilitate an understanding of changes in the field of psychology over time. Students will consider the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which psychology developed and continues to…

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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
Davidson College · Psychologybias_left_share15—60—
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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