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Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers?

Overview of attention for article published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, January 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 1,621)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
70 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
twitter
30 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
45 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
2 Bluesky users
podcasts
6 podcasts

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mendeley
176 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers?
Published in
Social Psychological and Personality Science, January 2010
DOI 10.1177/1948550609355486
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Unknown 171 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 29 16%
Student > Master 18 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 9%
Other 7 4%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 3%
Other 11 6%
Unknown 90 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 39 22%
Social Sciences 19 11%
Arts and Humanities 12 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 1%
Other 8 5%
Unknown 94 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 664. 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 03 November 2026.
All research outputs
#41,102
of 34,795,682 outputs
Outputs from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#27
of 1,621 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74
of 238,015 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,795,682 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 1,621 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 69.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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