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Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, January 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 4,581)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
Published in
Psychological Science, January 2012
DOI 10.1177/0956797611421206
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 21 4%
United Kingdom 7 1%
Brazil 4 <1%
Netherlands 4 <1%
Chile 4 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Other 12 2%
Unknown 475 88%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 105 20%
Researcher 90 17%
Student > Bachelor 62 12%
Student > Master 57 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 39 7%
Other 124 23%
Unknown 60 11%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 219 41%
Social Sciences 64 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 22 4%
Computer Science 13 2%
Other 114 21%
Unknown 72 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4057. 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 01 November 2026.
All research outputs
#1,298
of 34,772,654 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#3
of 4,581 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3
of 307,781 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#1
of 52 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,772,654 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 4,581 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 87.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 52 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 98% of its contemporaries.