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Happiness as a Motivator

Overview of attention for article published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, May 2012
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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 (89th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
18 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site

Citations

dimensions_citation
52 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
139 Mendeley
Title
Happiness as a Motivator
Published in
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, May 2012
DOI 10.1177/0146167212444906
Pubmed ID
Authors

Claudia M. Haase, Michael J. Poulin, Jutta Heckhausen

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 139 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 128 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 16%
Student > Bachelor 21 15%
Researcher 10 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Other 27 19%
Unknown 22 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 58 42%
Business, Management and Accounting 21 15%
Social Sciences 17 12%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 25 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 83. 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 19 January 2023.
All research outputs
#481,718
of 24,379,758 outputs
Outputs from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#334
of 2,823 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,258
of 166,969 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#5
of 37 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 2,823 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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