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ppsych-literature-synthesis
Use when systematically gathering and synthesizing literature across psychology sub-areas for a Perspectives on Psychological Science (PoPS) integrative review, theoretical statement, or meta-science piece — coverage discipline, and for meta-science the systematic evidence about the field's practices. Builds the evidence corpus; it does not impose the analytical spine (ppsych-organizing-framework) or audit balance (ppsych-comprehensiveness-and-balance).
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# Literature Synthesis (ppsych-literature-synthesis)
## When to trigger
- The topic/proposal is set and it is time to read across the relevant sub-areas thoroughly
- Reading feels unsystematic; you fear missing work a psychologist from an adjacent area would expect
- You have many papers but no way to weigh, compare, or reconcile their findings across paradigms
- For meta-science: you need systematic evidence *about the field's practices*, not just substantive findings
## Coverage discipline: read across areas, not one literature
A PoPS piece's credibility rests on the reader's belief that you read **across the relevant sub-areas**, not only your home paradigm — and PoPS reviewers are often drawn from the very areas being integrated, so siloing is noticed. Build coverage systematically:
1. **Seed set.** Start from the proposal's key references and each sub-area's canonical pieces.