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Anger Is an Approach-Related Affect: Evidence and Implications

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Bulletin, January 2009
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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)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (58th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
3 X users
patent
3 patents
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator
podcasts
1 podcast

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1191 Mendeley
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3 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Anger Is an Approach-Related Affect: Evidence and Implications
Published in
Psychological Bulletin, January 2009
DOI 10.1037/a0013965
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,191 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 27 2%
United Kingdom 7 <1%
Netherlands 6 <1%
Australia 6 <1%
Japan 4 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Israel 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 1125 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 271 23%
Student > Master 146 12%
Researcher 115 10%
Student > Bachelor 110 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 89 7%
Other 229 19%
Unknown 231 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 586 49%
Social Sciences 76 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 74 6%
Neuroscience 44 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 3%
Other 106 9%
Unknown 274 23%
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 01 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,187,747
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Bulletin
#511
of 2,616 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,995
of 249,021 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Bulletin
#13
of 31 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 2,616 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 47.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 31 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 58% of its contemporaries.