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arpsych-literature-synthesis

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Use when systematically gathering, reading, and structuring the literature for an Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych) review so coverage is comprehensive and current. Builds the evidence base; it does not design the analytical spine (arpsych-organizing-framework) or judge balance (arpsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).

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# Literature Synthesis — Reading the Whole Field (arpsych-literature-synthesis)

## When to trigger

- An invitation is in hand and the reading must start in earnest
- The user has "read a lot" but has no system for tracking what is covered
- Coverage gaps are likely (one paradigm, one lab, or one decade dominates the notes)
- An embedded meta-analysis is planned and the search must be documentable

## Coverage is the price of admission, not the contribution

ARPsych readers trust a review to be **comprehensive within its frame and current to the frontier**. A reviewer caught missing a major line of work loses authority instantly. But coverage is the floor: the *contribution* is the framework you impose later (`arpsych-organizing-framework`). This skill builds an evidence base broad and well-recorded enough that (a) nothing important is missed and (b) you can later be *selective in prose* without being *incomplete in coverage*.

## A systematic, documentable search
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