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Does Meaning Motivate Magical Thinking Among Theists and Atheists?

Overview of attention for article published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, May 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (80th percentile)
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12 X users
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Article details
Title
Does Meaning Motivate Magical Thinking Among Theists and Atheists?
Published in
Social Psychological and Personality Science, May 2019
DOI 10.1177/1948550619829063
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 4 15%
Student > Master 3 11%
Other 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Researcher 2 7%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 10 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 44%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Computer Science 1 4%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 10 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 March 2026.
All research outputs
#4,550,009
of 32,449,574 outputs
Outputs from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#940
of 1,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74,030
of 382,051 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#14
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,449,574 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,592 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 67.7. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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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 is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.