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Violent and nonviolent video games produce opposing effects on aggressive and prosocial outcomes

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2010
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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 (88th percentile)
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1 news outlet
twitter
1 X user
reddit
3 Redditors

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260 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Violent and nonviolent video games produce opposing effects on aggressive and prosocial outcomes
Published in
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2010
DOI 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.06.005
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 3 1%
Brazil 3 1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 245 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 49 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 15%
Student > Master 32 12%
Researcher 27 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 7%
Other 50 19%
Unknown 44 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 126 48%
Social Sciences 28 11%
Computer Science 14 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 2%
Other 26 10%
Unknown 52 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 09 April 2026.
All research outputs
#4,063,559
of 32,430,365 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
#1,106
of 2,658 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,322
of 145,243 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
#13
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,430,365 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,658 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 36.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its peers.
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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 has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 50% of its contemporaries.