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Flattering to Deceive: Why People Misunderstand Benevolent Sexism

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, February 2019
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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 (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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4 news outlets
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10 X users
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4 Redditors

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144 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Flattering to Deceive: Why People Misunderstand Benevolent Sexism
Published in
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, February 2019
DOI 10.1037/pspa0000135
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 144 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 21 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 15%
Student > Master 17 12%
Researcher 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 49 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 52 36%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 6%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 3%
Other 13 9%
Unknown 55 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 44. 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 23 April 2025.
All research outputs
#1,202,269
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#1,226
of 8,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,923
of 487,065 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
#7
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,033 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 34.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its contemporaries.