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Wearing a Bicycle Helmet Can Increase Risk Taking and Sensation Seeking in Adults

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, January 2016
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
29 news outlets
blogs
13 blogs
twitter
178 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
4 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
reddit
75 Redditors
bluesky
8 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

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210 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Wearing a Bicycle Helmet Can Increase Risk Taking and Sensation Seeking in Adults
Published in
Psychological Science, January 2016
DOI 10.1177/0956797615620784
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 201 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 43 20%
Student > Master 22 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 9%
Researcher 18 9%
Professor 12 6%
Other 42 20%
Unknown 54 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 64 30%
Social Sciences 11 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 5%
Engineering 9 4%
Environmental Science 7 3%
Other 44 21%
Unknown 64 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 491. 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 26 August 2026.
All research outputs
#67,902
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#146
of 4,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#850
of 447,905 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#1
of 39 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 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,561 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 86.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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