From jcp-skills
Polishes JCP manuscript prose to foreground the psychological mechanism, not the effect. Use after design and analysis are stable.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jcp-skills:jcp-writing-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The introduction opens with an effect or a context, not the psychological process
JCP papers are stories about the consumer's mind. The reader should learn, early, which mental process the paper is about and why it matters — then watch each study tighten the case. The house voice is APA-scientific: precise, hypothesis-driven, economical. Unlike JCR's longer, more discursive intros, JCP prose is tight and process-forward, and the Research Report format (<4,000 words; 检索于 2026-06;以官网为准) rewards severe economy. Do the writing last: an intro that promises a mechanism cannot be finalized until the mediation/moderation evidence is settled.
A JCP intro typically moves in four beats:
Lead with the mechanism, not "Marketing managers care about…". The managerial hook can come after the theoretical contribution, never before it.
The abstract must name the effect, the process, and the boundary in a few sentences: what shifts, the mental mechanism that drives it, the moderator that proves the mechanism, and the contribution. Reviewers and the editor decide fit from the abstract; an abstract that reports only an effect signals an effect-only paper.
【Intro lead】process named on page 1? [Y/N]
【Abstract】effect + process + boundary + contribution present? [Y/N]
【Contribution thread】process-led and consistent across intro/abstract/discussion? [Y/N]
【Hypotheses】clean, a priori, mapped to studies? [Y/N]
【Voice】APA-scientific, economical; Report within word limit? [Y/N]
【Next skill】jcp-submission
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jcp-skillsPolishes Journal of Applied Psychology manuscripts to APA 7th edition style with a contribution-forward narrative arc.
Polishes JCR manuscripts for interdisciplinary readability, Chicago house style, 200-word abstract, and double-anonymized review. Use at late-stage prose refinement.
Guides the sharpening of a one-sentence contribution for Journal of Consumer Psychology manuscripts, ensuring the novelty reads as a psychological mechanism rather than an effect. Useful when reviewers say the finding is incremental.