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Cogpsych Writing Style

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Cogpsych Writing Style

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-writing-style -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills cogpsych-writing-style --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Cognitive-Psychology-Skills/skills/cogpsych-writing-style .claude/skills/cogpsych-writing-style && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
cogpsych-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
582 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one…

  • Works in 5 steps: Front-load the theoretical claim. State… → Make each experiment a step in the… → Integrate the model, don't append it.… → …
  • Polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Writing the long-form,…, Structure that keeps a… and Worked micro-example — making…, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Cogpsych Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one continuous theoretical argument. Tightens structure, the experiment-to-model narrative, and APA-style reporting; it does not invent content. Verify the journal's current length and format guidance on the official page.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form
  • Integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one continuous theoretical argument

Example prompts

  • “/cogpsych-writing-style”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Front-load the theoretical claim. State the question, the rival accounts, and the contribution in
  2. Make each experiment a step in the argument. Open each experiment with the specific question it
  3. Integrate the model, don't append it. Introduce the model where it does explanatory work — often
  4. General Discussion earns its length. Synthesize across experiments and the model fit; state the
  5. Report statistics rigorously. Effect sizes with intervals for behavior, model-comparison criteria

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Cogpsych Writing Style loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 104 tokens; SKILL.md has 582 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~104
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 582 words, ~1,502 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cogpsych-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
cogpsych-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one continuous theoretical argument. Tightens structure, the experiment-to-model narrative, and APA-style reporting; it does not invent content. Verify the journal's current length and format guidance on the official page.

Writing Style (cogpsych-writing-style)

Cognitive Psychology publishes longer, integrative articles, so the challenge is the opposite of a short-report journal: the danger is not the word limit but losing the argument across many experiments and a model. Writing well here means making a multi-experiment program plus a formal model read as one cumulative theoretical argument, in clear scientific prose with rigorous (APA-style) statistical reporting.

When to trigger

  • Drafting the Introduction/General Discussion or doing a structural pass
  • A series of experiments reads as a list rather than a single argument
  • Integrating the model exposition with the empirical sections
  • Aligning statistical reporting and references to the journal's style before submission

Writing the long-form, model-driven paper

  1. Front-load the theoretical claim. State the question, the rival accounts, and the contribution in the Introduction (see cogpsych-literature-positioning). The reader should know what is at stake before Experiment 1.
  2. Make each experiment a step in the argument. Open each experiment with the specific question it answers and what it adds (rules out a confound, tests a divergent prediction); close with a brief bridge to the next. Avoid a flat "Experiment N: Method/Results" list.
  3. Integrate the model, don't append it. Introduce the model where it does explanatory work — often alongside the experiments it explains — not as a detached final section the empirical reader skips.
  4. General Discussion earns its length. Synthesize across experiments and the model fit; state the theoretical advance and its scope; keep limitations honest. This is where the integrative payoff is delivered, not a restatement of each Results section.
  5. Report statistics rigorously. Effect sizes with intervals for behavior, model-comparison criteria for fits, exact test statistics; APA-style author-date citations and reference formatting. Confirm the current style requirements on the official guide for authors.

Structure that keeps a multi-experiment paper coherent

SectionJobFailure mode to avoid
Introductionquestion + rival accounts + contributionchronological phenomenon history
Model (where introduced)formalization + what each parameter meansa detached "the model" section nobody reads
Experiments 1..keach adds inference, with a bridgea flat list of independent studies
General Discussionsynthesis + theoretical advance + scoperestating each Results section
Show full SKILL.md (232 more words)Show less

Worked micro-example — making experiments cohere (illustrative)

For the recognition-memory program, the General Discussion turns three experiments into one claim:

Weak: "Experiment 1 found a linear z-ROC. Experiment 2 also found a linear
       z-ROC. Experiment 3 found a linear z-ROC."
Strong: "Across three experiments engineered to make z-ROC shape diagnostic -
       and after ruling out a list-composition confound (Exp 2) and testing a
       further divergent prediction (Exp 3) - the z-ROC was reliably linear,
       the qualitative signature UVSD predicts and DPSD forbids. The single
       continuous-strength account is thus favored not by a fit index alone
       but by a pattern the rival cannot produce."

Cohesion playbook

  • Replace "Experiment N also showed X" with "having established X, we next asked whether..." — make the series a chain of questions, not a pile of studies.
  • Put procedural detail in Method and lengthy derivations/recovery in an appendix/supplement so the main narrative stays about the theory.
  • Replace dichotomous "significant" sentences with estimation/model-comparison phrasing — more precise and more venue-appropriate.
  • If the General Discussion restates Results, cut it; lead with the cross-experiment synthesis and the theoretical advance.

Prose-stage reviewer pushback and the venue fix

  • "Reads as a list of experiments" → add the question-and-bridge structure; synthesize in the General Discussion.
  • "The model feels bolted on" → introduce it where it explains the data; connect each experiment to a model prediction.
  • "Stats without effect sizes / model comparison" → report intervals and comparison criteria, not stars.
  • "Too long for what it says" → length must buy integration; cut redundant per-experiment recaps.

Anti-patterns

  • A multi-experiment paper written as independent, disconnected studies
  • A formal model quarantined in a section detached from the experiments
  • A General Discussion that restates each Results section instead of synthesizing
  • Statistics reported without effect sizes/intervals or without model comparison
  • Length used to pad rather than to integrate the program

Output format

【Theoretical claim front-loaded】question + rivals + contribution? [Y/N]
【Experiments cohere】each adds inference, with bridges? [Y/N]
【Model integrated】introduced where it explains, not appended? [Y/N]
【General Discussion】synthesis + advance + scope, not restatement? [Y/N]
【Reporting】effect sizes/intervals + model comparison + APA style? [Y/N]
【Next】cogpsych-open-science-and-transparency

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Cognitive-Psychology-Skills/skills/cogpsych-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Cogpsych Writing Style

What does Cogpsych Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one…. Cogpsych Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form, integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one continuous theoretical argument.

When should I use Cogpsych Writing Style?

Cogpsych Writing Style fits situations like: polishing a Cognitive Psychology (Elsevier) manuscript — a long-form; integrative article that must weave multiple experiments and a formal model into one continuous theoretical argument.

How do I install Cogpsych Writing Style in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-writing-style -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Cognitive-Psychology-Skills/skills/cogpsych-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/cogpsych-writing-style in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cogpsych Writing Style in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-writing-style -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Cognitive-Psychology-Skills/skills/cogpsych-writing-style in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/cogpsych-writing-style in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cogpsych Writing Style in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cogpsych-writing-style -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cogpsych-writing-style, .gemini/skills/cogpsych-writing-style, .github/skills/cogpsych-writing-style and .opencode/skills/cogpsych-writing-style in your project.

What does Cogpsych Writing Style need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cogpsych Writing Style is instructions for the agent only.

Does Cogpsych Writing Style access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cogpsych Writing Style safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Cogpsych Writing Style use?

Cogpsych Writing Style is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Cogpsych Writing Style use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Cogpsych Writing Style?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.