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Does religion make people more self-controlled? A review of research from the lab and life

Overview of attention for article published in Current Opinion in Psychology, December 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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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12 news outlets
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8 X users
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1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Does religion make people more self-controlled? A review of research from the lab and life
Published in
Current Opinion in Psychology, December 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.12.001
Pubmed ID
Authors

Zeve J Marcus, Michael E McCullough

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 143 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Student > Bachelor 10 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 6%
Student > Master 9 6%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 78 55%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 23 16%
Social Sciences 13 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Unspecified 3 2%
Other 15 10%
Unknown 81 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 97. 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 November 2025.
All research outputs
#551,984
of 34,333,622 outputs
Outputs from Current Opinion in Psychology
#139
of 1,763 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,822
of 567,748 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Opinion in Psychology
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,333,622 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,763 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 15 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 93% of its contemporaries.