devpsych-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature. Positioning here must establish a developmental gap (what is unknown about change, age, or mechanism) and the contribution, while distinguishing the venue from siblings such as Child Development and Developmental Science. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill devpsych-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 (devpsych-literature-positioning) Developmental Psychology expects an Introduction that names a **developmental gap** — what is unresolved about *change, age, or mechanism* — and states the contribution to **theory about development**, not just to a topic. Positioning is where many submissions are judged "interesting but not developmental"; this skill makes the developmental stakes legible. ## When to trigger - Drafting or tightening the Introduction - A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental," "not clearly developmental," or "already known" - Connecting a specific age/trajectory finding to a broad developmental question - Deciding which developmental literatures (and which sibling-journal work) to cite ## How to position a developmental contribution 1. **Open with the developmental question and its stakes**, not a topic history. Why does the *change* (or its mechanism) matter for theories of development? 2. **Name the developmental gap precisely.** Is the unknown about *whether* an effect changes with age, *how* it changes (shape, timing, sensitive period), *for whom* (moderators), or *why* (mechanism)? Avoid "little is known about development of X
- When to trigger
- How to position a developmental contribution
- Developmental-gap typology (pick the kind of gap you fill)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Positioning-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the devpsych-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript against the developmental literature. Positioning here must establish a developmental gap (what is unknown about change, age, or mechanism) and the contribution, while distinguishing the venue from siblings such as Child Development and Developmental Science. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill devpsych-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.