jpsp-workflow

JPSP Workflow Router (jpsp-workflow)

The orchestrator for a JPSP submission. JPSP is not one journal with one editor — it is **three

independently edited sections**, each with its own editor, masthead, rules, and Editorial Manager

portal. It is also a long-format, multi-study journal: a developed theory plus several related

studies, not a single short report. The router's first job is to lock the section, then route by

stage.

When to trigger

• Starting a new JPSP paper and unsure where to begin
• Unsure which of the three sections the paper belongs to
• Mid-project and unsure which skill applies next
• Returning with a decision letter (route to jpsp-rebuttal)

First question: which section?

| Your contribution is about… | Section | Portal |

|------------------------------|---------|--------|

| Attitudes, persuasion, social cognition, emotion/motivation in social context | Attitudes and Social Cognition (ASC) | editorialmanager.com/asc |

| Close relationships, dyads, intragroup/intergroup processes, group behavior | Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes (IRGP) | editorialmanager.com/irg |

| Personality structure/development/assessment, individual differences, traits | Personality Processes and Individual Differences (PPID) | editorialmanager.com/pid |

> One paper, one section. The sections are edited separately and apply their own length rules

> (ASC intro+discussion ≤ 3,500 words; IRGP ≤ 5,000 words and ≤ 5 studies in the main text; PPID

> "as succinctly as possible"). Confirm the live per-section page — see 待核实 in the source map.

Routing map (stage → skill)

Section + idea fit?              → jpsp-topic-selection
Where does it sit in the field?  → jpsp-literature-positioning
What's the theory + hypotheses?  → jpsp-theory-and-hypotheses
Is the multi-study package sound?→ jpsp-study-design
Are analyses + meta-analysis ok? → jpsp-data-analysis
Are the exhibits APA-clean?      → jpsp-tables-figures
Does it read in APA long-format? → jpsp-writing-style
Transparency / JARS / TOP?       → jpsp-open-science-and-transparency
How will the section judge it?   → jpsp-review-process
Ready to submit (masked)?        → jpsp-submission
Got an R&R / decision?           → jpsp-rebuttal

Default order

`topic-selection → literature-positioning → theory-and-hypotheses → study-design → data-analysis →

tables-figures → writing-style → open-science-and-transparency → review-process → submission → rebuttal`

Iterate: most JPSP papers loop theory ↔ study-design ↔ data-analysis several times as the package

grows from Study 1 to a coherent set with an internal meta-analysis.

Anti-patterns

• Treating JPSP like a short-report journal (it is long-format, multi-study) — see Psychological Science instead for short reports
• Drafting before choosing a section, then forcing the paper into the wrong one
• Building one study and hoping reviewers waive the multi-study expectation
• Leaving the internal meta-analysis / integrative analysis to "later"

Calibration anchors for a JPSP submission

The fixed expectations to hold while routing — binding figures (caps, portals) must be confirmed against the journal's submission guidelines (待核实):

| Anchor | JPSP expectation | Why it shapes routing |

|--------|------------------|------------------------|

| Package size | A converging multi-study set, not one study | An inherently single study → a short-report venue, not JPSP |

| Sections | Three independently edited: ASC / IRGP / PPID | Lock the section before any other step |

| Innovation | Theoretical advance precedes data strength | Theory comes before design |

| Open science | TOP Level 2, JARS, prereg, effect sizes with CIs | Transparency is gated at the editor's desk, not polish |

| Integration | Internal meta-analysis across studies | Plan comparable metrics from Study 1 |

These anchors are the post-credibility-revolution defaults the pack operationalizes; when a stage is unclear, return to the anchor it touches.

Router pass for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the construct validity, study sequence, power/robustness plan, and boundary conditions; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: psychology reviewers who need a theoretical construct, validated measurement, and cumulative-study logic.

• Do the pass: Run the pack as a sequence: fit gate, evidence gate, writing gate, source-map gate, and final output contract; stop when a gate lacks evidence.
• Return a ledger: give claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.
• Sibling guard: compare against Psychological Science for shorter general-interest findings, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin for field scope, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology for experiment-centered claims; if a sibling owns the contribution, recommend re-routing before polishing format.
• Stop condition: do not give submission-ready advice until the pack's resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.

Output format

【Section】ASC / IRGP / PPID  (why this section, one line)
【Stage】section-fit / positioning / theory / design / analysis / exhibits / writing / transparency / review / submit / rebut
【Route to】jpsp-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that

Supplementary resources

• [../../resources/external_tools.md](../../resources/external_tools.md) — personality/social-psych data + software by design
• [../../resources/official-source-map.md](../../resources/official-source-map.md) — official APA JPSP URLs behind every fact in this pack