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Bad is Stronger than Good

Overview of attention for article published in Review of General Psychology, December 2001
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 537)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Bad is Stronger than Good
Published in
Review of General Psychology, December 2001
DOI 10.1037/1089-2680.5.4.323
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 20 <1%
United Kingdom 8 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 10 <1%
Unknown 2631 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 414 15%
Student > Master 308 11%
Student > Bachelor 236 9%
Researcher 166 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 163 6%
Other 497 18%
Unknown 905 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 657 24%
Business, Management and Accounting 333 12%
Social Sciences 258 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 57 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 49 2%
Other 359 13%
Unknown 976 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1601. 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 18 October 2026.
All research outputs
#8,450
of 34,609,551 outputs
Outputs from Review of General Psychology
#1
of 537 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4
of 185,192 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of General Psychology
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,609,551 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 537 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 185,192 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 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them