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spq-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) manuscript — laboratory and survey experiments (group processes, status), survey and secondary-data analysis (social structure and personality), or observation/ethnography and interviews (symbolic interaction). SPQ judges each tradition on its own terms but always asks how the design captures the link between structure and the individual. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (spq-research-design)
SPQ accepts experiments, surveys, and observational/interpretive work, but is demanding about each. The
design must credibly connect the social-psychological argument (`spq-theory-building`) to evidence about
the **structure–individual link**. This skill is tradition-aware: pick the section that matches your work
and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation.
## When to trigger
- Specifying an experimental setting, a survey/measurement plan, or a fieldwork/interview design
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, construct validity, case/site selection, or a confound
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `spq-literature-positioning`
- Deciding how the design operationalizes the social-psychological mechanism
