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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Does Watching a Play about the Teenage Brain Affect Attitudes toward Young Offenders?
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00964 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert Blakey |
| Abstract |
Neuroscience is increasingly used to infer the cognitive capacities of offenders from the activity and volume of different brain regions, with the resultant findings receiving great interest in the public eye. This field experiment tested the effects of public engagement in neuroscience on attitudes toward offenders. Brainstorm is a play about teenage brain development. Either before or after watching this play, 728 participants responded to four questions about the age of criminal responsibility, and the moral responsibility and dangerousness of a hypothetical young or adult offender. After watching the play, participants perceived the young offender as less likely to reoffend than the adult offender and the young, but not adult, offender as less morally responsible for his actions, especially on the first offense. Therefore, public engagement in the newest arrival to the criminological scene - neuroscience - may shift support for different youth justice responses. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 20% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Ireland | 1 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 14 | 56% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 17 | 68% |
| Scientists | 6 | 24% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 33 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 33 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 18% |
| Researcher | 5 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 18% |
| Unknown | 8 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 12 | 36% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 12% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 12% |
| Unknown | 8 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 04 December 2017.
All research outputs
#1,448,296
of 26,367,306 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#3,039
of 35,210 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,468
of 336,877 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#72
of 599 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,367,306 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 35,210 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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