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Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior

Overview of attention for article published in Social Media + Society, April 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#26 of 1,430)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
26 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
73 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
14 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
249 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Anger, Fear, and Echo Chambers: The Emotional Basis for Online Behavior
Published in
Social Media + Society, April 2019
DOI 10.1177/2056305119829859
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 249 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 13%
Student > Master 25 10%
Student > Bachelor 17 7%
Researcher 15 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 6%
Other 29 12%
Unknown 116 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 58 23%
Psychology 23 9%
Arts and Humanities 10 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 3%
Decision Sciences 5 2%
Other 26 10%
Unknown 120 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 248. 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 14 October 2026.
All research outputs
#188,591
of 34,317,218 outputs
Outputs from Social Media + Society
#26
of 1,430 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,229
of 395,425 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Media + Society
#1
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,317,218 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 1,430 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 395,425 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 99% 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 96% of its contemporaries.