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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Failure to Demonstrate That Playing Violent Video Games Diminishes Prosocial Behavior
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0068382 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Morgan J. Tear, Mark Nielsen |
| Abstract |
Past research has found that playing a classic prosocial video game resulted in heightened prosocial behavior when compared to a control group, whereas playing a classic violent video game had no effect. Given purported links between violent video games and poor social behavior, this result is surprising. Here our aim was to assess whether this finding may be due to the specific games used. That is, modern games are experienced differently from classic games (more immersion in virtual environments, more connection with characters, etc.) and it may be that playing violent video games impacts prosocial behavior only when contemporary versions are used. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 235 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 44 | 19% |
| Spain | 24 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 23 | 10% |
| Mexico | 10 | 4% |
| Canada | 9 | 4% |
| Italy | 5 | 2% |
| Australia | 3 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Oman | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 27 | 11% |
| Unknown | 86 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 203 | 86% |
| Scientists | 25 | 11% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 2% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 186 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Greece | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 172 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 44 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 26 | 14% |
| Researcher | 22 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 41 | 22% |
| Unknown | 25 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 81 | 44% |
| Social Sciences | 20 | 11% |
| Arts and Humanities | 9 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 8 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 31 | 17% |
| Unknown | 31 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 314. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 June 2022.
All research outputs
#110,290
of 25,738,558 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#1,731
of 224,222 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#644
of 207,232 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#42
of 4,810 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,738,558 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 224,222 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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