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Are the Behavioral Immune System and Pathogen Disgust Identical?

Overview of attention for article published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, October 2014
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Article details
Title
Are the Behavioral Immune System and Pathogen Disgust Identical?
Published in
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, October 2014
DOI 10.1037/ebs0000018
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Unknown 68 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 23%
Student > Bachelor 13 19%
Researcher 6 9%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 14 20%
Unknown 12 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 37 54%
Social Sciences 6 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 19 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 30 March 2026.
All research outputs
#8,534,976
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
#185
of 336 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#88,389
of 265,638 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
#2
of 3 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 336 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.0. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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