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Optimising is just perfectionism in disguise. Here’s why that’s a problem

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Optimising is just perfectionism in disguise. Here’s why that’s a problem
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.9n67fk74y
Authors

Houlihan, Catherine

Abstract

Constantly striving to improve ourselves can take a toll on our mental health.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 16 October 2025.
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Altmetric has tracked 32,311,788 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 201,821 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 100.1. This one is in the 22nd percentile – i.e., 22% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.