Psychological Review Skills

Theory-development skill stack for Psychological Review, the American Psychological Association's flagship journal for THEORETICAL contributions in scientific psychology. Psychological Review publishes new theoretical frameworks, formal/mathematical/computational models, and major theoretical syntheses across cognition, perception, learning, development, social psychology, and neuroscience; it doe

by @brycewang-stanford 12 skills

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

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This plugin

skills: 12
authors: 1

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Skills in this plugin

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Psychrev Rebuttal · brycewang-stanford
Use when a Psychological Review decision letter (usually a major revision) has arrived and you must write the response document and revise the theory. Drafts the response and revision plan; it does NOT run the resubmission preflight (psychrev-submission) or build new theory from scratch (psychrev-theory-construction).

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Psychrev Workflow · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding which psychrev-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing a theory or formal-model manuscript from problem framing through masked-review revision for a Psychological Review submission. Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills.

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Psychrev Submission · brycewang-stanford bundle
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a Psychological Review manuscript — Editorial Manager portal, APA format and length, abstract, masking, references, ethics, and (for computational models) sharing the author's own model code. Theory journal; there is no empirical data-availability/replication-package step.

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Psychrev Writing Style · brycewang-stanford
Use when polishing a Psychological Review manuscript to APA house style and theory-paper register — mechanism-first prose, model vocabulary, no empirical-report framing. A late-stage polish; it does NOT build the theory (psychrev-theory-construction) or derive its predictions (psychrev-argument-development).

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Psychrev Review Process · brycewang-stanford
Use when anticipating how a Psychological Review manuscript will be evaluated — masked peer review, the kinds of decisions, article types (full article vs. Theoretical Note), and what reviewers at a theory journal actually probe. Explains the process; it does NOT write the response document (that is psychrev-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (psychrev-submission).

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Psychrev Topic Selection · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding whether an idea is a genuine theoretical problem with the scope and generality Psychological Review demands — and, critically, whether it is theory rather than an empirical report. Screens fit and frames the problem; it does NOT build the model (that is psychrev-theory-construction) or position it against rivals (psychrev-literature-positioning).

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Psychrev Boundary Conditions · brycewang-stanford
Use when setting the scope of a Psychological Review theory — what it explains, what it does NOT, and (for formal models) whether its parameters are identifiable. Bounds the theory; it does NOT derive its predictions (psychrev-argument-development) or frame its advance over rivals (psychrev-contribution-framing).

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Psychrev Conceptual Exhibits · brycewang-stanford
Use when designing the figures of a Psychological Review manuscript — model/architecture diagrams and simulation-of-model-behavior plots (NOT experiments). Builds the exhibits; it does NOT derive the predictions they display (psychrev-argument-development) or set the model's scope (psychrev-boundary-conditions).

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Psychrev Theory Construction · brycewang-stanford
Use when building the actual theory or formal/computational model for a Psychological Review manuscript — turning a framed problem into explicit assumptions, mechanisms, formal structure, and derivations. Constructs the model; it does NOT derive and test predictions against data (that is psychrev-argument-development) or set scope and identifiability limits (psychrev-boundary-conditions).

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Psychrev Argument Development · brycewang-stanford
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).

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Psychrev Contribution Framing · brycewang-stanford
Use when articulating the theoretical advance of a Psychological Review manuscript — what the field can explain after the paper that it could not before, stated against the specific prior models it improves on. Frames the contribution; it does NOT build the model (psychrev-theory-construction) or position it in the literature (psychrev-literature-positioning).

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Psychrev Literature Positioning · brycewang-stanford
Use when locating a Psychological Review manuscript within its theoretical conversation — naming the theories it extends and, above all, the rival models it must beat or subsume. Positions the theory; it does NOT build the model (psychrev-theory-construction) or run the head-to-head prediction contrast (psychrev-argument-development).

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