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The Natural Emergence of Reasoning About the Afterlife as a Developmental Regularity

Overview of attention for article published in Developmental Psychology, January 2004
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
2 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site

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mendeley
179 Mendeley
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2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The Natural Emergence of Reasoning About the Afterlife as a Developmental Regularity
Published in
Developmental Psychology, January 2004
DOI 10.1037/0012-1649.40.2.217
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 9 5%
United Kingdom 5 3%
Israel 2 1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 161 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 18%
Student > Master 22 12%
Researcher 22 12%
Student > Bachelor 18 10%
Lecturer 11 6%
Other 52 29%
Unknown 21 12%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 88 49%
Social Sciences 19 11%
Philosophy 10 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Arts and Humanities 6 3%
Other 19 11%
Unknown 31 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. 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 14 October 2026.
All research outputs
#920,172
of 34,582,852 outputs
Outputs from Developmental Psychology
#218
of 4,873 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,452
of 200,605 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Developmental Psychology
#5
of 51 outputs
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