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Reduced self-control leads to disregard of an unfamiliar behavioral option: an experimental approach to the study of neuroenhancement

Overview of attention for article published in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, December 2013
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Title
Reduced self-control leads to disregard of an unfamiliar behavioral option: an experimental approach to the study of neuroenhancement
Published in
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, December 2013
DOI 10.1186/1747-597x-8-41
Pubmed ID
Authors

Wanja Wolff, Franz Baumgarten, Ralf Brand

Abstract

Neuroenhancement (NE), the use of psychoactive substances in order to enhance a healthy individual's cognitive functioning from a proficient to an even higher level, is prevalent in student populations. According to the strength model of self-control, people fail to self-regulate and fall back on their dominant behavioral response when finite self-control resources are depleted. An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that ego-depletion will prevent students who are unfamiliar with NE from trying it.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Unknown 88 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 20%
Student > Bachelor 10 11%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 26 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 16%
Sports and Recreations 5 6%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Unspecified 4 4%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 34 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 13 September 2016.
All research outputs
#6,933,036
of 22,733,113 outputs
Outputs from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#389
of 665 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#83,250
of 306,486 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy
#5
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,733,113 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 665 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.5. This one is in the 40th percentile – i.e., 40% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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