Psychological Bulletin Skills

Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at Psychological Bulletin — the American Psychological Association's (APA) flagship outlet for integrative research reviews and meta-analyses, founded in 1904 and submitted via APA Editorial Manager under masked review with no submission fee stated. Psychological Bulletin publishes syntheses of research in scientific psychology — systematic reviews, meta-

by @brycewang-stanford 12 skills

Install

npx skillmds@latest add plugin:brycewang-stanford/psychological-bulletin-skills

One command, no setup. In Claude Code it lands as a managed plugin you can enable, disable or remove with /plugin. On any other agent it installs the 12 skills into that agent's own folder.

Or inside Claude Code

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/plugin install brycewang-stanford-psychological-bulletin-skills@skillmd

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Or install by hand

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This plugin

skills: 12
authors: 1

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Skills in this plugin

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Psychbull Rebuttal · brycewang-stanford
Use when writing the response to a Psychological Bulletin revise-and-resubmit. A synthesis R&R often demands re-running the search, adding studies, or new bias/moderator analyses, so the response must satisfy every reviewer and the editor while keeping the meta-analysis internally consistent. Structures the response letter; it does not fabricate results.

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Psychbull Workflow · brycewang-stanford
Use as the entry point for any Psychological Bulletin manuscript. Routes to the right psychbull sub-skill based on where you are in the research-synthesis lifecycle and which synthesis type (meta-analysis, systematic review, meta-review/meta-synthesis, qualitative review) fits. Psychological Bulletin publishes syntheses, not original studies — it dispatches; it does not draft content.

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Psychbull Submission · brycewang-stanford
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for Psychological Bulletin via APA Editorial Manager — masking, the ≤ 250-word abstract, APA 7th style, MARS/PRISMA/JARS checklists, and the transparency package. Final checks; it does not draft content.

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Psychbull Writing Style · brycewang-stanford
Use when drafting and polishing a Psychological Bulletin manuscript so it reads as an integrative synthesis and meets APA 7th-edition style plus MARS/PRISMA/JARS reporting structure, including the ≤ 250-word abstract. Guides prose and structure; it does not run the analysis.

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Psychbull Tables Figures · brycewang-stanford
Use when building exhibits for a Psychological Bulletin manuscript — the PRISMA flow diagram, forest plots, funnel/bias plots, moderator bubble plots, and MARS-ready summary tables in APA 7th-edition format. Guides exhibit design; it does not generate the underlying estimates.

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Psychbull Topic Selection · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding whether a question is review-worthy and meta-analyzable for Psychological Bulletin and which synthesis type fits (meta-analysis, systematic review, meta-review/meta-synthesis, qualitative review). Tests fit for an APA research-synthesis flagship; it does not write the review.

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Psychbull Theory Integration · brycewang-stanford
Use when turning the synthesis results of a Psychological Bulletin manuscript into a genuine theoretical contribution — reconciling conflicting findings, building or refining a model, and stating scope conditions and a research agenda. Makes the synthesis matter; it does not run the analysis.

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Psychbull Moderators And Bias · brycewang-stanford
Use when explaining heterogeneity and probing robustness in a Psychological Bulletin meta-analysis — moderator/subgroup analysis, meta-regression, and publication-bias diagnostics (funnel, Egger, trim-and-fill, PET-PEESE, p-curve, selection models) plus sensitivity analyses. Extends the core model; estimation lives in psychbull-meta-analysis-methods.

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Psychbull Inclusion And Coding · brycewang-stanford
Use when defining eligibility criteria and coding studies for a Psychological Bulletin review or meta-analysis — inclusion/exclusion rules, a codebook, double-coding, and inter-rater reliability. Governs how studies enter and are coded; effect-size modeling lives in psychbull-meta-analysis-methods.

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Psychbull Meta Analysis Methods · brycewang-stanford
Use when computing effect sizes and fitting the meta-analytic model for a Psychological Bulletin manuscript — effect-size metrics, random-effects vs. fixed-effect choice, dependent effect sizes (RVE / multilevel), and heterogeneity (Q, I², τ², prediction interval). Guides the core synthesis; moderators and bias diagnostics live in psychbull-moderators-and-bias.

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Psychbull Literature Search Strategy · brycewang-stanford
Use when designing and documenting the systematic literature search for a Psychological Bulletin review or meta-analysis — databases, search strings, grey literature, deduplication, and a PRISMA-compliant records flow. Builds a reproducible search; it does not screen or code studies.

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Psychbull Open Science And Transparency · brycewang-stanford
Use when planning and assembling the transparency package for a Psychological Bulletin submission — protocol preregistration (PROSPERO/OSF), TOP-compliant disclosure, and depositing the database, codebook, and analysis scripts. Covers transparency requirements; it does not run the analysis.

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