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Children's Conscience During Toddler and Preschool Years, Moral Self, and a Competent, Adaptive Developmental Trajectory

Overview of attention for article published in Developmental Psychology, September 2010
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
3 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
reddit
4 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

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mendeley
265 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Children's Conscience During Toddler and Preschool Years, Moral Self, and a Competent, Adaptive Developmental Trajectory
Published in
Developmental Psychology, September 2010
DOI 10.1037/a0020381
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Norway 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 251 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 69 26%
Student > Master 41 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 31 12%
Student > Bachelor 26 10%
Researcher 23 9%
Other 30 11%
Unknown 45 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 146 55%
Social Sciences 24 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 4%
Engineering 4 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 2%
Other 15 6%
Unknown 61 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. 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 22 February 2026.
All research outputs
#1,273,517
of 33,022,911 outputs
Outputs from Developmental Psychology
#300
of 4,827 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,646
of 140,853 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Developmental Psychology
#3
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,022,911 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,827 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 140,853 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.