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Positive Affect Is Associated With Less Memory Decline: Evidence From a 9-Year Longitudinal Study

Overview of attention for article published in Psychological Science, October 2020
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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 (86th percentile)

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news
53 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
49 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
5 Redditors
podcasts
3 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
95 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Positive Affect Is Associated With Less Memory Decline: Evidence From a 9-Year Longitudinal Study
Published in
Psychological Science, October 2020
DOI 10.1177/0956797620953883
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 95 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 9%
Researcher 9 9%
Professor 8 8%
Student > Master 7 7%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 40 42%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 31 33%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 5%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Neuroscience 2 2%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 45 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 462. 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 13 August 2026.
All research outputs
#75,305
of 34,387,656 outputs
Outputs from Psychological Science
#165
of 4,563 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,968
of 471,512 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychological Science
#5
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,387,656 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 4,563 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 86.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 36 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.