Psychology
Prerequisite: PSYC100. What are the psychological implications of racism, sexism, homophobia and other structures of inequality in the United States? How do socio-cultural privilege and oppression influence individual and group thoughts,…
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University of Maryland-College Park · Psychology
4.3% of University of Maryland-College Park'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
33%Left75–91
67%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
Explores the causes, correlates, and consequences of racial prejudice in the United States and other national contexts. Using lecture, readings, and discussion, we will examine the psychological theory and research on what processes…
Psychology
Prerequisite: PSYC300. Overview and active discussion of issues related to diversity and discrimination in organizations from several different perspectives, including: the person(s) being stigmatized, the person(s) doing the stigmatizing,…
Furthest-right subjects
None. University of Maryland-College Park 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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Maryland-College Park · Psychology | bias_left_share | 4.3 | — | 46 | — |
| 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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