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Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions

Overview of attention for article published in Personality & Individual Differences, July 2011
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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9 news outlets
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1 YouTube creator

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Article details
Title
Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions
Published in
Personality & Individual Differences, July 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.018
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
South Africa 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Austria 1 1%
Unknown 91 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 15%
Researcher 12 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 21 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 45 47%
Neuroscience 8 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 26 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 69. 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 12 June 2026.
All research outputs
#788,053
of 34,360,257 outputs
Outputs from Personality & Individual Differences
#570
of 7,507 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,646
of 166,395 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality & Individual Differences
#2
of 41 outputs
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