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The Relationship between Appearance and Personality Across the Life Span

Overview of attention for article published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 1998
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (59th percentile)

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1 X user
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1 Wikipedia page
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1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
The Relationship between Appearance and Personality Across the Life Span
Published in
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 1998
DOI 10.1177/0146167298247006
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 5%
United States 1 2%
Romania 1 2%
Afghanistan 1 2%
Unknown 60 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Researcher 9 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Master 6 9%
Other 16 24%
Unknown 9 14%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 34 52%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Engineering 3 5%
Philosophy 2 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 13 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 19 September 2026.
All research outputs
#10,519,182
of 34,358,242 outputs
Outputs from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#2,319
of 3,441 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,187
of 47,804 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#5
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,358,242 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
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 43.8. This one is in the 32nd percentile – i.e., 32% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 2 of them.