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Tufts University · Psychology

3.7% of Tufts University's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Tufts University: 3.7% 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
4 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 0051 · Black Psychology70

Psychology

An examination of Black experiences through a psychological lens. Theories, paradigms, and research developed to understand the attitudes, behaviors, and psychological experiences of Black Americans. Topics typically include the history of…

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PSY 0138 · Psychology of Anti-Black Racism in U.S. Health70

Psychology

Psychological, physiological, political, and environmental effects of racism on the health and well-being of Black/African Americans. Investigates health outcomes through interpersonal and institutional discrimination, neighborhood and…

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PSY 0115 · Social Identity, Stigma and Coping67

Psychology

(Cross-listed as PSY 215) People who are targeted by stereotypes and prejudice experience the world in unique ways. Investigation of the psychological consequences of stereotypes for victims and examination of how targets of prejudice…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Tufts University Psychology has 4 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
Tufts University · Psychologybias_left_share3.7—109—
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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