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Consumers value a product viewed online more if they see it being virtually touched

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

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Title
Consumers value a product viewed online more if they see it being virtually touched
Published by
The Conversation, December 2021
DOI 10.64628/aai.u3uwarrt3
Authors

Luangrath, Andrea, Andrea Luangrath

Abstract

New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 254. 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 January 2022.
All research outputs
#181,864
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#18,758
of 211,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,437
of 563,652 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#333
of 897 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 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 211,841 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 897 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its contemporaries.