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Psychology Today's ten nearest neighbors are almost entirely news and current-affairs media — not other magazines, not health or wellness properties. The top 10 form a tight cluster of news publishers, public-affairs TV, and political radio, with scores compressed into a narrow band from 0.9262 to 0.9416, the hallmark of a flat shape.
Six of the ten neighbors are News Publishers: The Wall Street Journal (0.94), BBC Breaking News (0.93), The Associated Press (0.93), Politico (0.93), The Washington Post (0.93), and NPR Politics (0.93). Two more are TV Shows — PBS NewsHour (0.94) and The Daily Show (0.93) — and NPR (0.93) rounds out the broadcast-and-radio tier. The lone individual in the set is Jake Tapper (0.93), a Journalist. No other magazine appears in the top 10, and no health, science, or wellness property does either.
The cross-kind pattern here is the central finding: a magazine whose nearest audience shapes belong almost entirely to hard-news outlets and political commentary. The audience Psychology Today draws looks, compositionally, like the audience that follows wire services and public-affairs programming — not the audience that follows its own publishing category.
