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Why do people play violent video games? Demographic, status-related, and mating-related correlates in men and women

Overview of attention for article published in Personality & Individual Differences, November 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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
13 X users
reddit
5 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
109 Mendeley
citeulike
2 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Why do people play violent video games? Demographic, status-related, and mating-related correlates in men and women
Published in
Personality & Individual Differences, November 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.paid.2015.06.018
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Sweden 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 102 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 19%
Student > Bachelor 19 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 15%
Researcher 10 9%
Other 6 6%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 22 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 37 34%
Social Sciences 12 11%
Computer Science 7 6%
Arts and Humanities 6 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Other 18 17%
Unknown 25 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 09 May 2026.
All research outputs
#810,479
of 34,568,501 outputs
Outputs from Personality & Individual Differences
#581
of 7,528 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,335
of 321,004 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality & Individual Differences
#17
of 140 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,568,501 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,528 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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