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name: jpsp-workflow description: Use as the entry point for any Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) manuscript. Routes to the right JPSP sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and — first of all — which of the three independently edited sections (ASC, IRGP, PPID) fits the paper. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

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