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Yerkes-Dodson: A Law for all Seasons

Overview of attention for article published in Theory & Psychology, November 1994
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 667)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
16 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
video
1 YouTube creator

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716 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Yerkes-Dodson: A Law for all Seasons
Published in
Theory & Psychology, November 1994
DOI 10.1177/0959354394044004
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 10 1%
Sweden 3 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 688 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 115 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 95 13%
Student > Master 94 13%
Researcher 52 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 41 6%
Other 106 15%
Unknown 213 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 189 26%
Engineering 47 7%
Social Sciences 43 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 40 6%
Computer Science 29 4%
Other 135 19%
Unknown 233 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 142. 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 06 September 2026.
All research outputs
#366,912
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Theory & Psychology
#1
of 667 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#69
of 31,608 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Theory & Psychology
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 667 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 31,608 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
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