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Developmental Psychology Skills
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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at Developmental Psychology — the American Psychological Association (APA) journal for empirical work on human development across the life span: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging; cognitive, social, emotional, and biological development. The journal's defining demand is a credible claim about developmental change — age effects, within-person change, or trajectories — and the contribution must advance theory about development.
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic psychology-writing toolbox and it is not a relabeled social-science pack. It is Developmental Psychology-specific: developmental-change designs (cross-sectional, longitudinal/cohort, accelerated, micro-genetic, experiment), the field's hard problems (age vs. cohort confounds, attrition, measurement invariance across ages, ethics with minors), change-modeling analysis (growth-curve / multilevel / SEM, mediation/moderation), APA 7th edition + JARS reporting, the required Public Significance Statement, and the journal's Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) open-science commitments.
Official basis checked 2026-06. Volatile specifics (editor, length tiers, abstract ceiling, masked-review and TOP wording) are marked 待核实 in resources/official-source-map.md. Verify on the official page.
What Is Developmental Psychology, and Why a Dedicated Stack?
Its constraints differ sharply from a general empirical-psychology or a social-science journal:
| Constraint | Developmental Psychology | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Core claim | Developmental change — age effects, within-person change, trajectories | A single-age correlation is not a fit |
| Designs | Cross-sectional, longitudinal/cohort, accelerated, micro-genetic, experiment | Match the design to the change claim |
| Hard problems | Age vs. cohort, attrition, measurement invariance across ages | Test invariance before interpreting change |
| Analysis | Growth-curve / multilevel / SEM, mediation/moderation, FIML/MI for attrition | Model change, don't snapshot it |
| Reporting | APA 7th edition + JARS (JARS-Quant / JARS-Qual / MARS) | Effect sizes + CIs; full disclosure |
| Front matter | Public Significance Statement (2–3 sentences, ~30–70 words) | Lay-accessible relevance, no overclaim |
| Length | Tiered: ~4,500 (brief) / ~10,500 (larger) / ~15,000 (multi-study/longitudinal) | Pick the right tier (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) |
| Ethics | Consent + child assent; vulnerable-population protections | Age-appropriate measures and data handling |
| Publisher / portal | APA / Editorial Manager (editorialmanager.com/dvl); masked review | Anonymize the manuscript and the shared links |
| Transparency | TOP — data-availability statement, DOIs, preregistration, sample-size justification | Plan deposits early; share minors' data via permission archives |
Developmental Psychology is the broad APA lifespan-development journal — distinct from Child Development (SRCD), Developmental Science, and JPSP. Unverified items are marked 待核实 in resources/official-source-map.md.
Quick Start
Option A — Claude Code Plugin (recommended)
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills
/plugin install developmental-psychology-skills
/reload-pluginsOption B — Manual Copy
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills.git
cd awesome-journal-skills/Developmental-Psychology-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/devpsych-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/devpsych-* ~/.codex/skills/First Prompt
Use devpsych-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my Developmental Psychology manuscript.Default Workflow
devpsych-topic-selection
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devpsych-theory-and-hypotheses
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devpsych-literature-positioning
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devpsych-study-design (preregister + plan invariance/attrition here)
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devpsych-data-analysis
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devpsych-tables-figures
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devpsych-writing-style (APA 7th + Public Significance Statement)
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devpsych-open-science-and-transparency
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devpsych-review-process
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devpsych-submission
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devpsych-rebuttaldevpsych-workflow is the router. If your design is prospective and confirmatory, route to devpsych-study-design and devpsych-open-science-and-transparency early so a preregistration and a sample-size justification exist before data collection.
Skills
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
devpsych-workflow | Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next |
devpsych-topic-selection | Fit test: is the contribution about developmental change? Length tier |
devpsych-theory-and-hypotheses | Developmental theory + age-graded, directional hypotheses; confirmatory split |
devpsych-literature-positioning | Stake a developmental gap (change/age/mechanism) and the contribution |
devpsych-study-design | Age vs. cohort, attrition, measurement invariance, power, ethics with minors |
devpsych-data-analysis | Growth-curve/multilevel/SEM, invariance, mediation/moderation, effect sizes |
devpsych-tables-figures | APA 7th exhibits that show change over age (trajectories, CIs) |
devpsych-writing-style | APA 7th + JARS; length tiers; the Public Significance Statement |
devpsych-open-science-and-transparency | TOP: data-availability statement, DOIs, preregistration, minors' data |
devpsych-review-process | Masked review; developmental-credibility and transparency as graded factors |
devpsych-submission | Editorial Manager preflight (tier, abstract, masking, invariance, TOP) |
devpsych-rebuttal | R&R response-letter strategy (invariance/attrition/disclosure requests) |
Resources
resources/external_tools.md— preregistration (OSF), repositories (OSF/ICPSR/Databrary/Dataverse/Zenodo), developmental data archives, power simulation, growth/SEM/invariance/missing-data packages,papajaresources/official-source-map.md— official APA URLs behind every fact, with 待核实 markersresources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— a before→after Developmental Psychology Introduction (fictional)resources/exemplars/library.md— verified Developmental Psychology papers by method × developmental domain
Differences vs. Sibling Journals
| Dimension | Developmental Psychology (APA) | Child Development (SRCD) | Developmental Science (Wiley) | JPSP (APA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core remit | Broad lifespan development | Society flagship, childhood | Often infant/cognitive mechanism | Personality / social processes |
| Defining claim | Developmental change + theory | Child development + theory | Mechanism of development | Not a developmental-change claim |
| Typical format | Tiered reports (brief→multi-study) | Full empirical articles | Often brief, fast | Long empirical articles |
| Best fit when | Lifespan change, broad theory advance | Child-focused, society-facing | Short mechanism-focused finding | Process not centered on age |
What This Repo Does Not Do
- It does not write a submittable manuscript for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's or reviewer's taste
- It does not assert volatile metadata (current editor, exact length tiers, TOP wording) — verify on the official page; unverified items are marked 待核实
- It does not decide whether your finding is a credible developmental advance — that is the researcher's call
Related
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- Developmental Psychology (APA) — scope, submission guidelines, open-science policy
- APA JARS — Journal Article Reporting Standards
License
MIT