ppsych-organizing-framework
Use when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical statement — the unifying argument or "spine" that turns a reading list into a claim about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (ppsych-literature-synthesis) or audit balance (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppsych-organizing-framework --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.
# Organizing Framework — the Argument's Spine (ppsych-organizing-framework) ## When to trigger - The evidence matrix is built but the draft would read like a list of papers - Sections are named after topics ("Behavioral studies", "Neuro work") rather than ideas - A reader could not predict what comes next or why papers are grouped as they are - You cannot state in one sentence the *argument or unifying claim* the piece makes about the field ## Why the spine is the whole game at PoPS The most-cited reason integrative reviews fail is that they are **annotated bibliographies** — paper-after-paper summaries with no organizing idea. A great PoPS piece **imposes a structure the field did not have**: a taxonomy, a unifying theory, a sequence of questions, or a reframing that makes scattered cross-area work legible and *provocative*. The framework is the contribution; the citations are the evidence. PoPS's breadth mandate raises the bar: the spine must be graspable by a psychologist from a *different* area on one read, and it should **reframe**, not merely organize. Choose it deliberately: | Spine type | Organizes the field by | Best when | |-----------|------------------------|-----------
- When to trigger
- Why the spine is the whole game at PoPS
- The test of a good framework
- For theoretical statements specifically
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ppsych-organizing-framework skill do?
Use when imposing an analytical or conceptual structure on a body of psychology research for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review or theoretical statement — the unifying argument or "spine" that turns a reading list into a claim about the field. Designs the framework; it does not gather the literature (ppsych-literature-synthesis) or audit balance (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ppsych-organizing-framework --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.