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Frankly, We Do Give a Damn

Overview of attention for article published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, January 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 1,455)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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65 news outlets
blogs
13 blogs
twitter
1140 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
reddit
3 Redditors

Citations

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157 Mendeley
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Title
Frankly, We Do Give a Damn
Published in
Social Psychological and Personality Science, January 2017
DOI 10.1177/1948550616681055
Pubmed ID
Authors

Gilad Feldman, Huiwen Lian, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell

Abstract

There are two conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior share common causes and are often considered to be positively related. On the other hand, however, profanity is often used to express one's genuine feelings and could therefore be negatively related to dishonesty. In three studies, we explored the relationship between profanity and honesty. We examined profanity and honesty first with profanity behavior and lying on a scale in the lab (Study 1; N = 276), then with a linguistic analysis of real-life social interactions on Facebook (Study 2; N = 73,789), and finally with profanity and integrity indexes for the aggregate level of U.S. states (Study 3; N = 50 states). We found a consistent positive relationship between profanity and honesty; profanity was associated with less lying and deception at the individual level and with higher integrity at the society level.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 156 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 16%
Student > Master 22 14%
Student > Bachelor 22 14%
Researcher 16 10%
Other 9 6%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 41 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 40 25%
Linguistics 12 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 6%
Computer Science 7 4%
Social Sciences 7 4%
Other 35 22%
Unknown 46 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1144. 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 24 February 2024.
All research outputs
#13,009
of 25,591,967 outputs
Outputs from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#8
of 1,455 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#237
of 441,451 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Psychological and Personality Science
#2
of 22 outputs
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