jpsp-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) manuscript against the literatures its section's readers expect, building the long-format introduction and literature review that precede the multi-study package. Sharpens the gap and contribution; it does not write the literature review for you.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpsp-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 (jpsp-literature-positioning) In JPSP the **introduction and literature review are long and load-bearing** — they justify the whole multi-study package and set up the theory. Reviewers in your section judge whether you have engaged the right literatures and located a real, non-trivial gap. This skill positions the paper; the argument itself lives in `jpsp-theory-and-hypotheses`. ## When to trigger - Drafting or restructuring the introduction / literature review - A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental" or "misses key work" - Reconciling competing findings the paper claims to resolve ## What the long-format introduction must do 1. **Engage the section's core literatures.** ASC readers expect the attitudes/social-cognition canon; IRGP readers expect the relationships/groups literatures; PPID readers expect the personality/individual-differences traditions. Cite the work the editor will expect to see. 2. **Locate a specific gap or tension.** Not "X is understudied" but a precise puzzle: conflicting predictions, an unexplained boundary condition, a missing mechanism, an untested construct. 3. **Frame the contribution as theoretical.** State early what
- When to trigger
- What the long-format introduction must do
- Positioning checklist
- Anti-patterns
- "Incremental" — the reviewer charge and the section-specific fix
- Worked example: sharpening a PPID gap statement
- Positioning pass for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jpsp-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) manuscript against the literatures its section's readers expect, building the long-format introduction and literature review that precede the multi-study package. Sharpens the gap and contribution; it does not write the literature review for you.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpsp-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.