jcp-literature-positioning
Use when staking a Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) manuscript's contribution against the consumer-psychology literature and its siblings (JCR, JMR, Marketing Science, Psychological Science). Positions the mechanism as new; it does not build the theory (jcp-theory-development) or design studies (jcp-methods).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jcp-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 (jcp-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A reviewer wrote "we already know this" or "how is this different from [classic effect]?" - Your contribution overlaps a well-known consumer-psych phenomenon and the delta is unclear - The paper could be read as JCR / JMR / Psychological Science and you must claim the JCP lane - Your literature review is a citation list, not an argument about what is missing - You are unsure whether to position against an *effect* or against a *process* in prior work ## Position the process against the field, not the effect At JCP the contribution is a mechanism, so positioning means showing **what the field believes about the process and how you change it** — not just that your effect is novel. The strongest JCP positioning identifies a **gap in causal understanding**: prior work documented the effect but mis-specified or never identified the process; or a dominant account predicts the wrong moderation; or two literatures make conflicting process claims your paper reconciles. Frame the review as a debt the field owes the consumer's mind, then pay it. A useful test: write the sentence "Prior work shows that X affects consume
- When to trigger
- Position the process against the field, not the effect
- Staking the JCP lane against siblings
- Building the positioning argument
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jcp-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) manuscript's contribution against the consumer-psychology literature and its siblings (JCR, JMR, Marketing Science, Psychological Science). Positions the mechanism as new; it does not build the theory (jcp-theory-development) or design studies (jcp-methods).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jcp-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.