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psychrev-literature-positioning

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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).

When to use

• locating a manuscript within its theoretical conversation
• naming theories the manuscript extends
• identifying rival models to beat or subsume
• building a rival map for diagnostic phenomena
• selecting a positioning stance (subsumption, adjudication, extension)
• steelmanning rival theories at their current strongest form

When not to use

• building the model
• running the head-to-head prediction contrast
• topic-level literature review with no specific rival models named
• claiming false novelty when a standing model applies

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