research-psychology

Research user motivation, anxiety, identity, and social context from studies and real accounts.

1|Updated Jun 30, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/Lia-Creative/lia-plugins --skill research-psychology-lia-creative
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: research-psychology
Source: https://github.com/Lia-Creative/lia-plugins/tree/main/lia-tools/skills/research-psychology
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/Lia-Creative/lia-plugins --skill research-psychology-lia-creative

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? When planning research, teams often guess at what users actually want underneath a stated request, or lean on generated personas that have no evidence behind them. This Skill supplies the psychology domain of a research plan: motivation, anxiety, identity, and social context, drawn from studies and real accounts rather than invented personas. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Motivation and anxiety analysis: Distinguishes intrinsic wants from imposed obligations and surfaces what users fear losing, breaking, or being judged for. - Named effects with replication status: Cites effects like loss aversion, defaults, and effort justification with their sources and honest replication records. - Real conversations as primary sources: Treats recorded user sessions and adventure chats as citable evidence, and explicitly rejects synthetic-user output as findings. - Use Case: While building a research plan for a new onboarding flow, dispatch this domain to return what evidence says about why users abandon setup, what anxieties drive drop-off, and which populations were actually studied. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to research the psychology behind what users are actually looking for in your product area, and it will return sourced findings on motivation, anxiety, identity, and social context.

Frequently Asked Questions about research-psychology

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I research user motivation for a product research plan?▼

Start from observed behavior rather than theory: find diary studies, ethnographies, interview write-ups, and forum threads where people explain themselves, then match named effects that fit. This Skill structures that work as the psychology domain of a research plan with sourced findings.

What counts as a valid source for user psychology research?▼

Valid sources are peer-reviewed behavioral research with replication status noted, published ethnographic or diary studies, dated first-hand accounts, and your own recorded conversations with real people. Pop-psychology restatements without a study behind them fail the quality bar.

Can synthetic user personas be used as research evidence?▼

No. Synthetic-user output produces psychologically coherent hypotheses to aim real conversations, but it can never answer a research question. Citing a synthetic panel's view as a finding is the specific failure this Skill exists to prevent.

How should replication status affect behavioral science findings?▼

A famous effect that has failed replication is treated as a developing finding at best, and the research entry says so with its source. Prefer studies that replicate, and carry replication status on every named effect such as loss aversion or defaults.

When should I not use psychology domain research?▼

Do not use it to diagnose users with clinical conditions, to build persuasion playbooks for exploiting biases, or as a substitute for a jobs-to-be-done statement. It describes motivation and context from evidence, not manipulation tactics or discovery artefacts.