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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 (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
9 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
33 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
2 Facebook pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user

Readers on

mendeley
367 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Suffering and Compassion: The Links Among Adverse Life Experiences, Empathy, Compassion, and Prosocial Behavior
Published in
Emotion, March 2016
DOI 10.1037/emo0000144
Pubmed ID
Authors

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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 367 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 6 2%
Japan 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 359 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 60 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 14%
Student > Bachelor 43 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 34 9%
Researcher 26 7%
Other 52 14%
Unknown 100 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 159 43%
Social Sciences 22 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 19 5%
Neuroscience 11 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 2%
Other 32 9%
Unknown 115 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 122. 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 20 March 2026.
All research outputs
#435,331
of 34,582,852 outputs
Outputs from Emotion
#128
of 2,434 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,851
of 336,992 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Emotion
#2
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,582,852 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 2,434 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 336,992 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.