psychrev-argument-development
Use when deriving predictions from a Psychological Review theory and confronting them with existing data and rival models — the journal's substitute for an empirical results section. Develops the argument; it does NOT build the model (psychrev-theory-construction) or set its scope and identifiability limits (psychrev-boundary-conditions).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-argument-development --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.
# Argument Development: Deriving & Confronting Predictions (psychrev-argument-development) ## When to trigger - The model is built but you have not shown what it *predicts* - You assert the theory "explains" phenomena without deriving them - You have not compared your predictions to rival models on diagnostic cases - A reviewer will ask "could this theory have been wrong?" ## What replaces a results section here Psychological Review has no experiment of its own as the contribution. The work that an empirical paper does with data, a Review paper does with **derivation and confrontation**: you *derive* predictions from the model's assumptions, then *confront* them with already- existing evidence and with what rival models predict. Logical and quantitative soundness is the rigor standard, exactly as statistical inference is at empirical journals. ## The derivation discipline 1. **Derive, do not assert.** For each phenomenon in the explanandum, show how it *follows* from the assumptions — analytically, or by simulation that traces assumptions → behavior. "The model can explain X" is worthless without the derivation that it *does*. 2. **Separate signature from accommodation.** A strong
- When to trigger
- What replaces a results section here
- The derivation discipline
- The confrontation discipline
- Quantitative honesty (for formal models)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the psychrev-argument-development skill do?
Use when deriving predictions from a Psychological Review theory and confronting them with existing data and rival models — the journal's substitute for an empirical results section. Develops the argument; it does NOT build the model (psychrev-theory-construction) or set its scope and identifiability limits (psychrev-boundary-conditions).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill psychrev-argument-development --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.