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devpsych-theory-and-hypotheses

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Use when stating the developmental theory and age-graded hypotheses for a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript. The journal rewards hypotheses that are explicitly about change (age effects, within-person trajectories, mechanisms) and a clean confirmatory/exploratory split under JARS. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.

When to use

• Writing the theoretical framing and hypotheses
• Preparing a preregistration / pre-analysis plan
• Reconciling predicted change with trajectories
• Addressing reviewer flags for atheoretical or HARKed work

When not to use

• Running analyses

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