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Reasoning about dead agents reveals possible adaptive trends

Overview of attention for article published in Human Nature, December 2005
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)

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1 blog
policy
1 policy source
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4 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
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1 Bluesky user

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Article details
Title
Reasoning about dead agents reveals possible adaptive trends
Published in
Human Nature, December 2005
DOI 10.1007/s12110-005-1015-2
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 6 4%
United States 5 4%
Slovenia 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 124 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 20%
Student > Master 22 16%
Researcher 17 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 40 29%
Unknown 12 9%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 71 51%
Social Sciences 23 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 18 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 23 July 2025.
All research outputs
#3,139,280
of 31,943,232 outputs
Outputs from Human Nature
#221
of 578 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,269
of 204,703 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Nature
#2
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,943,232 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 578 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its peers.
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