spq-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript — laboratory and survey experiments (group processes, status), survey and secondary-data analysis (social structure and personality), or observation/ethnography and interviews (symbolic interaction). SPQ judges each tradition on its own terms but always asks how the design captures the link between structure and the individual. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill spq-research-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.
# Research Design (spq-research-design) SPQ accepts experiments, surveys, and observational/interpretive work, but is demanding about each. The design must credibly connect the social-psychological argument (`spq-theory-building`) to evidence about the **structure–individual link**. This skill is tradition-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation. ## When to trigger - Specifying an experimental setting, a survey/measurement plan, or a fieldwork/interview design - A reviewer questioned causal claims, construct validity, case/site selection, or a confound - Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `spq-literature-positioning` - Deciding how the design operationalizes the social-psychological mechanism ## Experimental (group processes, status, exchange — the lab tradition) - **Standardized experimental settings.** State the setting (e.g., status/expectation-states paradigm, exchange networks) and how the manipulation realizes the theoretical construct. - **Manipulation / standardized-setting checks**; randomization; attention checks; attrition. - **Inference**: pre-specify primary outcomes; correct
- When to trigger
- Experimental (group processes, status, exchange — the lab tradition)
- Survey / secondary-data (social structure and personality)
- Observational / interpretive (symbolic interaction)
- The adjudication test (SPQ-specific)
- Design stress ledger
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the spq-research-design skill do?
Use when defending the research design of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript — laboratory and survey experiments (group processes, status), survey and secondary-data analysis (social structure and personality), or observation/ethnography and interviews (symbolic interaction). SPQ judges each tradition on its own terms but always asks how the design captures the link between structure and the individual. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill spq-research-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.