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The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others

Overview of attention for article published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, March 2002
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#25 of 3,441)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others
Published in
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, March 2002
DOI 10.1177/0146167202286008
Authors

Emily Pronin, Daniel Y. Lin, Lee Ross

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 15 2%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Slovenia 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 836 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 149 17%
Student > Master 117 13%
Student > Bachelor 91 10%
Researcher 79 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 52 6%
Other 188 22%
Unknown 195 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 301 35%
Social Sciences 96 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 69 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 23 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 22 3%
Other 129 15%
Unknown 231 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 568. 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 September 2026.
All research outputs
#53,164
of 34,356,690 outputs
Outputs from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#25
of 3,441 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14
of 70,694 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#1
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,356,690 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 3,441 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.0. 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 18 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 94% of its contemporaries.