Literature Positioning (psci-literature-positioning)

Psychological Science gives you almost no room for a traditional literature review: roughly 40 references and an Introduction that shares a 2,000-word budget with the Discussion. Positioning must be surgical — name the open question, the contribution, and the broad relevance in a few tight paragraphs.

When to trigger

• Drafting or compressing the Introduction
• A reviewer said the contribution is "incremental" or "not clearly novel"
• You have far more citations than the format allows and must prioritize
• Connecting a specific finding to a broad psychological question

How to position in tight space