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Sex Differences in Perceptions of Desirable Body Shape

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, February 1985
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 2,795)
  • 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
13 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
228 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
10 Redditors
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
220 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Sex Differences in Perceptions of Desirable Body Shape
Published in
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, February 1985
DOI 10.1037/0021-843x.94.1.102
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Unknown 215 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 51 23%
Student > Master 29 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 13%
Researcher 15 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 5%
Other 41 19%
Unknown 45 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 94 43%
Social Sciences 17 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 4%
Other 26 12%
Unknown 50 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 302. 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 11 June 2026.
All research outputs
#145,354
of 34,563,297 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Abnormal Psychology
#14
of 2,795 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19
of 52,867 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Abnormal Psychology
#1
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,563,297 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 2,795 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 16 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.