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“Princess Alice is watching you”: Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits cheating

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 2,040)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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12 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
24 X users
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
14 Redditors
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3 YouTube creators
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1 Bluesky user

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209 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
“Princess Alice is watching you”: Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits cheating
Published in
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.02.003
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 7 3%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 197 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 22%
Student > Master 33 16%
Student > Bachelor 21 10%
Researcher 21 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 8%
Other 48 23%
Unknown 23 11%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 105 50%
Social Sciences 23 11%
Arts and Humanities 7 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 3%
Other 31 15%
Unknown 31 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 151. 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 20 August 2026.
All research outputs
#345,541
of 34,627,816 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
#36
of 2,040 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,001
of 162,830 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,627,816 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 2,040 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 14 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.