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Perception of psychopathy and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters

Overview of attention for article published in Computers in Human Behavior, July 2013
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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
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
2 X users
patent
2 patents
facebook
1 Facebook page
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
2 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
137 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Perception of psychopathy and the Uncanny Valley in virtual characters
Published in
Computers in Human Behavior, July 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.008
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Unknown 133 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 21%
Student > Master 29 21%
Student > Bachelor 18 13%
Researcher 7 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 16 12%
Unknown 32 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 45 33%
Computer Science 21 15%
Arts and Humanities 11 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 4%
Engineering 5 4%
Other 13 9%
Unknown 37 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. 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 28 June 2026.
All research outputs
#859,380
of 33,351,181 outputs
Outputs from Computers in Human Behavior
#407
of 4,990 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,599
of 234,465 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Computers in Human Behavior
#5
of 42 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,351,181 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,990 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 234,465 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 42 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.