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The hindsight bias: A meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, February 1991
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  • In the top 25% 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 (80th percentile)

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1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
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2 X users

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Article details
Title
The hindsight bias: A meta-analysis
Published in
Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, February 1991
DOI 10.1016/0749-5978(91)90010-q
Authors

Jay J.J Christensen-Szalanski, Cynthia Fobian Willham

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 7 3%
United Kingdom 4 2%
Brazil 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 230 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 57 23%
Student > Bachelor 30 12%
Student > Master 30 12%
Researcher 14 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 5%
Other 44 18%
Unknown 58 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 81 33%
Business, Management and Accounting 36 15%
Social Sciences 18 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 2%
Other 28 11%
Unknown 63 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 16 July 2025.
All research outputs
#2,286,223
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
#415
of 1,318 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,170
of 86,194 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,363,559 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,318 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 36.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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