cogpsych-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs. In a long-form, model-driven venue, positioning means showing what theoretical question your model adjudicates and why prior accounts fall short. Stakes the contribution against the right contrast class; it does not write the full literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (cogpsych-literature-positioning) Cognitive Psychology gives you room for a substantial introduction — but length is a trap if it becomes a catalogue. Positioning here is about the **theoretical contrast class**: which models or accounts you adjudicate, what they predict, and why the existing evidence cannot settle the question your program settles. Position against **rival models and prior programs**, not against a long chronology. ## When to trigger - Drafting the Introduction / theoretical framing - A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental," "already shown," or "not clearly novel relative to model X" - You have a large literature and must organize it around the theoretical question - Connecting a specific model comparison to a broad question about cognition ## How to position in a model-driven venue 1. **Open with the theoretical question**, framed as a live debate between accounts — not a textbook history of the phenomenon. 2. **Name the rival accounts precisely** and state what each predicts. The reader should see the fork the field is stuck on. 3. **Show why existing evidence cannot settle it.** Prior studies confound the accounts, lack a mode
- When to trigger
- How to position in a model-driven venue
- Reviews, replications, and extensions
- Positioning triage (organize around the debate)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Positioning-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the cogpsych-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript against the field, especially against rival models and prior empirical programs. In a long-form, model-driven venue, positioning means showing what theoretical question your model adjudicates and why prior accounts fall short. Stakes the contribution against the right contrast class; it does not write the full literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.