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Use when staking a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) manuscript's contribution against the behavioral, experimental, and organizational literatures. Builds the "what we knew / what was missing / what this adds" frame and a replication/extension stance; it does not invent citations.

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# Literature Positioning (jebo-literature-positioning)

## When to trigger

- The intro lists prior work but never says what was *missing*
- A referee will ask "how is this different from [the obvious prior experiment]?" and you have no crisp answer
- The paper replicates or extends a known result and you need to position that honestly
- The contribution spans two literatures (e.g., social preferences + organizational design) and the bridge is unclear

## How JEBO referees read a contribution

JEBO referees come from several traditions (behavioral, experimental, evolutionary, organizational), so the positioning must speak to whichever community owns the result while remaining legible to the others. The journal values **cumulative, mechanism-level progress**: a paper earns its place by sharpening, bounding, reconciling, or overturning a *specific behavioral claim*, not by being the first to run a particular task. Because JEBO publishes replications and close extensions more readily than top-5 general-interest journals, an honest "we replicate X and show it breaks under condition Y" is a legitimate, publishable contribution — but only if positioned as such, not disguised as wholly novel.

Build the frame in three moves:
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