Literature Positioning (jpsp-literature-positioning)

In JPSP the introduction and literature review are long and load-bearing — they justify the whole multi-study package and set up the theory. Reviewers in your section judge whether you have engaged the right literatures and located a real, non-trivial gap. This skill positions the paper; the argument itself lives in jpsp-theory-and-hypotheses.

When to trigger

• Drafting or restructuring the introduction / literature review
• A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental" or "misses key work"
• Reconciling competing findings the paper claims to resolve

What the long-format introduction must do