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Can Personality Traits and Intelligence Compensate for Background Disadvantage? Predicting Status Attainment in Adulthood

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, January 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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news
11 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
65 X users
weibo
1 weibo user
facebook
2 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
9 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

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252 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Can Personality Traits and Intelligence Compensate for Background Disadvantage? Predicting Status Attainment in Adulthood
Published in
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, January 2015
DOI 10.1037/pspp0000024
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 248 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 21%
Researcher 33 13%
Student > Master 29 12%
Student > Bachelor 17 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 49 19%
Unknown 57 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 107 42%
Social Sciences 28 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 2%
Other 18 7%
Unknown 72 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 145. 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 02 March 2026.
All research outputs
#361,023
of 34,622,316 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#464
of 8,046 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,458
of 410,851 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#6
of 59 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,622,316 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,046 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 59 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.