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Origins and Functions of Positive and Negative Affect: A Control-Process View

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Review, January 1990
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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6 news outlets
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2 blogs
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2 Redditors

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Article details
Title
Origins and Functions of Positive and Negative Affect: A Control-Process View
Published in
Psychological Review, January 1990
DOI 10.1037/0033-295x.97.1.19
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 14 1%
United Kingdom 13 1%
Germany 7 <1%
Spain 6 <1%
Australia 4 <1%
Japan 3 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Other 12 1%
Unknown 1126 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 274 23%
Student > Master 181 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 110 9%
Student > Bachelor 95 8%
Researcher 87 7%
Other 229 19%
Unknown 216 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 509 43%
Business, Management and Accounting 157 13%
Social Sciences 86 7%
Computer Science 21 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 2%
Other 130 11%
Unknown 268 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. 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 August 2025.
All research outputs
#997,321
of 32,125,052 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Review
#142
of 1,852 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#370
of 78,650 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Review
#3
of 25 outputs
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