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Social Psychological Face Perception: Why Appearance Matters

Overview of attention for article published in Social & Personality Psychology Compass, April 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#31 of 984)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
17 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
22 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
42 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators

Readers on

mendeley
644 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Social Psychological Face Perception: Why Appearance Matters
Published in
Social & Personality Psychology Compass, April 2008
DOI 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00109.x
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 7 1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Portugal 3 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Estonia 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 618 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 103 16%
Student > Bachelor 100 16%
Student > Master 89 14%
Researcher 47 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 35 5%
Other 95 15%
Unknown 175 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 258 40%
Social Sciences 28 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 25 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 4%
Other 75 12%
Unknown 207 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 195. 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 2026.
All research outputs
#255,546
of 34,359,530 outputs
Outputs from Social & Personality Psychology Compass
#31
of 984 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#441
of 136,558 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social & Personality Psychology Compass
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,359,530 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 984 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.