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arpsych-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a psychology topic is mature, important, and synthesis-ready enough to warrant an Annual Review of Psychology (ARPsych) review. Tests topic fit; it does not pitch the topic to the Committee (arpsych-proposal-and-commissioning) or gather the literature (arpsych-literature-synthesis).
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# Topic Selection — Is This an ARPsych Topic? (arpsych-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- A user wants to write "a review" and needs to know whether ARPsych is the right home
- An invitation is possible but the angle on the topic is undecided
- The candidate topic feels either too narrow (one lab's program) or too vast (all of memory)
- You must distinguish an ARPsych-scale survey from a *Psychological Bulletin* meta-analysis
## The three gates a topic must pass
ARPsych commissions reviews that the **whole field** will read for a decade. A topic earns a slot only if it clears all three:
| Gate | Question | Fails when |