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Looking at the Figures: Visual Adaptation as a Mechanism for Body-Size and -Shape Misperception

Overview of attention for article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, November 2019
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (80th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Looking at the Figures: Visual Adaptation as a Mechanism for Body-Size and -Shape Misperception
Published in
Perspectives on Psychological Science, November 2019
DOI 10.1177/1745691619869331
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 121 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 12%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Researcher 10 8%
Student > Master 9 7%
Student > Postgraduate 6 5%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 54 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 32 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 4%
Neuroscience 4 3%
Mathematics 2 2%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 60 50%
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 11 September 2025.
All research outputs
#4,844,439
of 32,857,301 outputs
Outputs from Perspectives on Psychological Science
#998
of 1,352 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#76,479
of 400,207 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Perspectives on Psychological Science
#17
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,857,301 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 1,352 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 77.4. This one is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 10th percentile – i.e., 10% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.