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(Why) Do You Like Scary Movies? A Review of the Empirical Research on Psychological Responses to Horror Films

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, October 2019
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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 (99th percentile)

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29 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
77 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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72 Dimensions

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295 Mendeley
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Title
(Why) Do You Like Scary Movies? A Review of the Empirical Research on Psychological Responses to Horror Films
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, October 2019
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02298
Pubmed ID
Authors

G. Neil Martin

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 295 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 35 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 9%
Student > Master 19 6%
Researcher 13 4%
Lecturer 10 3%
Other 27 9%
Unknown 165 56%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 38 13%
Arts and Humanities 17 6%
Social Sciences 13 4%
Neuroscience 7 2%
Linguistics 5 2%
Other 40 14%
Unknown 175 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 320. 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 02 September 2024.
All research outputs
#112,856
of 26,609,881 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#232
of 35,539 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,156
of 375,469 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#5
of 608 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 35,539 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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