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A Perspective on Disgust

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Review, January 1987
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
5 Redditors
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
869 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A Perspective on Disgust
Published in
Psychological Review, January 1987
DOI 10.1037/0033-295x.94.1.23
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 15 2%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Denmark 3 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 836 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 143 16%
Student > Master 126 14%
Student > Bachelor 97 11%
Researcher 88 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 56 6%
Other 163 19%
Unknown 196 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 297 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 81 9%
Social Sciences 60 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 43 5%
Neuroscience 21 2%
Other 134 15%
Unknown 233 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 02 February 2026.
All research outputs
#1,182,921
of 34,772,654 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Review
#174
of 1,942 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#253
of 61,469 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Review
#1
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,772,654 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 1,942 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 61,469 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 19 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 94% of its contemporaries.