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The role of the mass media in promoting a thin standard of bodily attractiveness for women

Overview of attention for article published in Sex Roles, May 1986
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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)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
393 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
145 Mendeley
Title
The role of the mass media in promoting a thin standard of bodily attractiveness for women
Published in
Sex Roles, May 1986
DOI 10.1007/bf00287452
Authors

Brett Silverstein, Lauren Perdue, Barbara Peterson, Eileen Kelly

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 145 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Chile 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 141 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 45 31%
Student > Master 20 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 12%
Researcher 8 6%
Student > Postgraduate 5 3%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 30 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 42 29%
Social Sciences 29 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 4%
Other 18 12%
Unknown 34 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. 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 26 August 2023.
All research outputs
#557,086
of 24,333,504 outputs
Outputs from Sex Roles
#166
of 2,331 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44
of 11,142 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sex Roles
#1
of 1 outputs
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