Analyze events through the disciplinary lens of psychology, applying established psychological frameworks (behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic, biological), research methodologies, and empirical findings to understand human behavior, cognition, emotion, motivation, social influence, mental health, and individual differences in context.
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node --versionpsychologist-analystExecute the skills CLI command in your project's root directory to begin installation:
Fetches psychologist-analyst from rysweet/amplihack and configures it for Cursor.
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Create detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature specs
Example
Generate user stories for 'password reset feature' with acceptance criteria, edge cases, and test scenarios
Reduce spec writing time by 50%, ensure comprehensive coverage
Research competitors, compare features, identify gaps
Example
Analyze 5 competitor products, create feature comparison matrix, suggest differentiation opportunities
Complete competitive research in 2 hours instead of 2 days
Evaluate features using frameworks (RICE, ICE, Kano) and create prioritized backlogs
Example
Score 20 feature ideas using RICE framework, generate prioritized roadmap with rationale
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Analyze events through the disciplinary lens of psychology, applying established psychological frameworks (behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic, biological), research methodologies, and empirical findings to understand human behavior, cognition, emotion, motivation, social influence, mental health, and individual differences in context.
Psychological analysis rests on fundamental principles:
Empiricism: Knowledge derives from systematic observation and experimentation. Claims must be tested against evidence, not intuition or authority.
Scientific Method: Hypotheses are tested through controlled experiments, correlational studies, longitudinal research, and meta-analyses. Replication and peer review ensure validity.
Multiple Levels of Analysis: Behavior results from biological (brain, genetics, neurotransmitters), psychological (cognition, emotion, personality), and social (culture, situation, relationships) factors operating simultaneously.
Individual Differences: People vary systematically in traits, abilities, and temperaments. Universal principles must account for variation.
Development: Humans change across lifespan. Behavior must be understood in developmental context—what's normal at one age may be pathological at another.
Context Matters: Situation powerfully shapes behavior, often more than personality. Understanding requires analyzing person-situation interaction.
Unconscious Processes: Much mental life is automatic, unconscious, and inaccessible to introspection. Behavior is not always explained by conscious reasoning.
Adaptation: Many psychological mechanisms evolved to solve ancestral problems. Understanding adaptive function illuminates behavior.
Core Premise: Mind is information processing system. Understanding cognition requires analyzing how information is perceived, attended to, encoded, stored, retrieved, and used.
Historical Development:
Key Concepts:
Attention:
Memory Systems:
Memory Processes:
Memory Fallibility:
Decision-Making and Judgment:
Dual-Process Theory (Kahneman & Tversky):
Heuristics: Mental shortcuts that are efficient but error-prone
Biases:
Problem-Solving:
When to Apply:
Sources:
Core Premise: Situation powerfully shapes behavior. Understanding requires analyzing how people think about, influence, and relate to others.
Fundamental Attribution Error: Overestimate dispositional (personality) explanations, underestimate situational causes
Social Cognition:
Schemas: Mental frameworks for organizing knowledge
Attitudes:
Social Influence:
Conformity: Changing behavior to match group norms
Obedience: Following orders from authority
Compliance: Agreeing to requests
Persuasion (Elaboration Likelihood Model):
Group Dynamics:
Groupthink (Irving Janis):
Social Facilitation/Inhibition:
Deindividuation: Reduced self-awareness in groups, decreased restraint
Prejudice and Discrimination:
Prejudice: Negative attitude toward group Discrimination: Negative behavior toward group members Stereotypes: Beliefs about group characteristics
Sources:
Reducing Prejudice:
Prosocial Behavior:
Altruism: Helping without expectation of reward Bystander effect: Presence of others reduces helping
Aggression:
Biological factors: Testosterone, amygdala, prefrontal cortex Learning: Modeling, reinforcement Frustration-aggression hypothesis: Frustration increases aggression Social learning theory (Bandura): Bobo doll experiments
When to Apply:
Sources:
Core Premise: Humans change systematically across lifespan. Understanding requires considering age, stage, and developmental context.
Major Theories:
Piaget's Cognitive Development:
Critiques: Underestimated children's abilities, stage boundaries fuzzy
Erikson's Psychosocial Development: Eight stages, each with crisis
Kohlberg's Moral Development:
Critique: Gender bias (Carol Gilligan's care ethics vs. justice ethics)
Key Developmental Processes:
Attachment (Bowlby, Ainsworth):
Parenting Styles (Baumrind):
Adolescence:
Adulthood and Aging:
Nature vs. Nurture:
When to Apply:
Sources:
Core Premise: Mental disorders are patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors causing distress or impairment. Understanding requires biological, psychological, and social factors (biopsychosocial model).
Diagnostic Framework: DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)
Major Disorder Categories:
Anxiety Disorders:
Mood Disorders:
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related:
Trauma and Stressor-Related:
Schizophrenia Spectrum:
Personality Disorders: Enduring patterns across situations
Etiology (Causes):
Biopsychosocial Model:
Diathesis-Stress Model: Vulnerability + stress → disorder
Treatment Approaches:
Psychotherapy:
Pharmacotherapy:
Stigma:
When to Apply:
Sources:
Core Premise: Brain and nervous system are biological bases of behavior and cognition. Understanding requires analyzing neural mechanisms.
Brain Structure and Function:
Major Brain Regions:
Hemispheric Specialization:
Neurotransmitters: Chemical messengers
Neuroplasticity: Brain changes with experience
Make data-driven prioritization decisions faster
Draft PRDs, status updates, and stakeholder presentations
Example
Create executive summary of Q3 roadmap, monthly progress report, feature launch announcement
Save 3-5 hours/week on communication overhead
Prerequisites
Time Estimate
30-60 minutes to see productivity improvements
Steps
Common Pitfalls
✓ Do
✗ Don't
💡 Pro Tips
✓ Use when
Use for user story writing, competitive research, roadmap prioritization, stakeholder communication, and PRD drafting. Best for reducing repetitive documentation and research work.
✗ Avoid when
Avoid for strategic product vision (requires deep customer empathy), pricing decisions (needs market and financial expertise), or when face-to-face customer discovery is more valuable than speed.
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I recommend psychologist-analyst for anyone iterating fast on agent tooling; clear intent and a small, reviewable surface area.
Registry listing for psychologist-analyst matched our evaluation — installs cleanly and behaves as described in the markdown.
psychologist-analyst reduced setup friction for our internal harness; good balance of opinion and flexibility.
Useful defaults in psychologist-analyst — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.
psychologist-analyst fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
psychologist-analyst has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.
Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: psychologist-analyst is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.
Useful defaults in psychologist-analyst — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.
psychologist-analyst fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
psychologist-analyst reduced setup friction for our internal harness; good balance of opinion and flexibility.
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