| Title |
Happiness Runs in a Circular Motion: Evidence for a Positive Feedback Loop between Prosocial Spending and Happiness
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Happiness Studies, April 2011
|
| DOI | 10.1007/s10902-011-9267-5 |
| Authors |
Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Michael I. Norton |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 60 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Thailand | 16 | 27% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 36 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 58 | 97% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
| Scientists | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 417 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Mexico | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 400 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 80 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 70 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 44 | 11% |
| Researcher | 36 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 32 | 8% |
| Other | 71 | 17% |
| Unknown | 84 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 169 | 41% |
| Social Sciences | 42 | 10% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 39 | 9% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 20 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 2% |
| Other | 40 | 10% |
| Unknown | 98 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 144. 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 April 2024.
All research outputs
#291,356
of 25,743,152 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Happiness Studies
#48
of 1,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#942
of 121,726 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Happiness Studies
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,743,152 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,033 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 121,726 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.