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Williams College · Psychology

7.1% of Williams College's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Williams College: 7.1% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
25%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
25%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

PSYC 357 · Clinical Psychology & Social Justice: Centering Marginalized Perspectives88

Psychology

In this course, students will evaluate the critical question of whether and how clinical psychology can address mental health disparities and promote social justice. Students will gain a substantive understanding of research and theory…

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PSYC 406 · Are there any universal psychological phenomena?78

Psychology

In this course, we will critically examine the ways culture, identities, power, systems, and privilege have shaped our understanding of human behavior as well as the consequences for policy, education, intervention, and prevention. Students…

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PSYC 341 · The Social Psychology of Prejudice65

Psychology

Cross-listings: WGSS 339 Primary Cross-listing This course will examine social psychological theories and research that are relevant to the understanding of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. We will take a variety of social…

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Furthest-right subjects

PSYC 26 · Charter Schools: Designing Innovative Public School Models to Meet Community Needs33

Psychology

Charter schools have provided the opportunity to create new and innovative school designs responsive to local needs and community assets, culture, industry and interests. Using the public charter school framework, students will learn what…

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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
Williams College · Psychologybias_left_share7.1—42—
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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