psci-study-design
Use when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control. Strengthens the design and pre-analysis plan; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psci-study-design --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.
# Study Design (psci-study-design) Psychological Science expects studies that are **adequately powered**, **transparently planned**, and **robust to researcher degrees of freedom**. Authors must **justify sample size** (a formal power analysis where appropriate). This skill hardens the design before data collection. ## When to trigger - Planning a study or a multi-study package - Writing a preregi
What does the psci-study-design skill do?
Use when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control. Strengthens the design and pre-analysis plan; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psci-study-design --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.