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Sex Differences in Preferences for Humor: A Replication, Modification, and Extension

Overview of attention for article published in Evolutionary 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
9 news outlets
twitter
56 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
12 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
podcasts
1 podcast

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Article details
Title
Sex Differences in Preferences for Humor: A Replication, Modification, and Extension
Published in
Evolutionary Psychology, January 2015
DOI 10.1177/147470491501300110
Pubmed ID
Authors

Liana S. E. Hone, William Hurwitz, Debra Lieberman

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Luxembourg 1 2%
Australia 1 2%
Unknown 55 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 14%
Student > Bachelor 7 12%
Student > Master 7 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Researcher 4 7%
Other 10 18%
Unknown 16 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 26 46%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 4%
Computer Science 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 17 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 125. 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 10 August 2026.
All research outputs
#422,227
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Evolutionary Psychology
#59
of 757 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,098
of 409,953 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Evolutionary Psychology
#5
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,350,842 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 757 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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