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Hamilton College · Psychology

4.9% of Hamilton College's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Hamilton College: 4.9% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

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
3 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

PSYCH 321 · Psychology of Gender and Leadership67

Psychology

Theoretical and methodological examination of how leadership potential is socially constructed, evaluated, and rewarded, and how these processes are shaped by gender stereotypes. Topics include leadership prototypes, role congruity and…

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PSYCH 359 · Stereotyping and Prejudice67

Psychology

In this course we will take a social psychological approach to understanding stereotypes, prejudice(s), and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other group memberships. We will examine classic and…

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PSYCH 367 · Psychological Bias in the Justice System67

Psychology

How does group membership (e.g., sex, race, ethnicity, religion) shape one's experiences with the criminal justice system? Adopting a chronological approach through an exemplar criminal case (e.g., arrest, arraignment, plea bargaining,…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Hamilton College Psychology has 3 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Hamilton College · Psychologybias_left_share4.9—41—
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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