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psychrev-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether an idea is a genuine theoretical problem with the scope and generality Psychological Review demands — and, critically, whether it is theory rather than an empirical report. Screens fit and frames the problem; it does NOT build the model (that is psychrev-theory-construction) or position it against rivals (psychrev-literature-positioning).
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# Topic Selection & Theory-Fit Screening (psychrev-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have an idea but are unsure it rises to a Psychological Review problem
- You have a rich empirical finding and are tempted to send it here
- You cannot say what existing theory *fails* to explain
- A collaborator asks "is this a Review paper or a JEP paper?"
## The first gate: is this theory at all?
Psychological Review is theory-only. Before anything else, run the **empirical-contribution
test**: if the manuscript's contribution is the *data* — a new effect, a better method, a
clean experiment — it is desk-rejected and redirected (to the JEP family, Psychological