↓ Skip to main content

Accuracy, Error, and Bias in Predictions for Real Versus Hypothetical Events

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, October 2006
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (62nd percentile)

Mentioned by

peer_reviews
1 peer review site
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
142 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
Accuracy, Error, and Bias in Predictions for Real Versus Hypothetical Events
Published in
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, October 2006
DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.91.4.583
Pubmed ID
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 134 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 27%
Professor 15 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 13 9%
Student > Master 10 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Other 32 23%
Unknown 25 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 67 47%
Business, Management and Accounting 24 17%
Social Sciences 10 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 1%
Neuroscience 2 1%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 28 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 17 February 2025.
All research outputs
#9,597,966
of 34,358,242 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#4,014
of 8,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#45,369
of 125,693 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#17
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,358,242 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,033 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.6. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 125,693 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 22nd percentile – i.e., 22% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.