This commentary reviews the author's history with mediation. In the second part, the author attempts to explain why there is such interest in the topic. In the third part, the author comments on the five articles in this feature topic.
Baron, R.M., & Kenny, D.A. (1986). The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
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Cheung, G.W., & Lau, R.S. (2008). Testing mediation and suppression effects of latent variables: Bootstrapping with structural equation models. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 296-325.
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Fiske, S., Kenny, D.A., & Taylor, S.E. (1982). Structural models for the mediation of salience effects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 18, 105-127.
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Hyman, H.H. (1955). Survey design and analysis. NewYork and Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.
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James, L.R., & Brett, J.M. (1984). Mediators, moderators and tests for mediation . Journal of Applied Psychology, 69, 307-321.
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Judd, C.M., & Kenny, D.A. (1981a). Estimating the effects of social interventions . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Judd, C.M., & Kenny, D.A. (1981b). Process analysis: Estimating mediation in treatment evaluation. Evaluation Review, 5, 602-619.
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Kenny, D.A. (1979). Correlation and causality. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
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Kraemer, H.C., Wilson, G.T., Fairburn, C.G., & Agras, W.S. (2002). Mediators and moderators of treatment effects in randomized clinical trials. Archives of General Psychiatry , 59, 877-883.
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Muller, D., Yzerbyt, V.Y., & Judd, C.M. (2008). Adjusting for a mediator in models with two crossed treatment variables. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 224-240.
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Pearl, J. (2000). Causality: Models, reasoning, and inference. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Quinones-Vidal, E., Lopez-García, J.J., Penaranda-Ortega, M., & Tortosa-Gil, F. (2004). The nature of social and personality psychology as reflected in JPSP, 1965—2000. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 435-452.
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Smith, E.R. (1982). Beliefs, attributions, and evaluations: Nonhierarchical models of mediation in social cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 248-259.
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Sobel, M.E. (1982). Asymptotic confidence intervals for indirect effects in structural models. In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological methodology 1982 (pp. 290-312). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Spencer, S.J., Zanna, M.P., & Fong, G.T. (2005). Establishing a causal chain: Why experiments are more effective than mediational analyses in examining psychological processes . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 845-851.
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Stone-Romero, E.F., & Roposa, P. (2008). The relative validity of inferences about mediation as a function of research design characteristics. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 326-353.
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Taylor, A.B., MacKinnon, D.P., & Tein, J. (2008). Tests of the three-path mediated effect. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 241-269.
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Wood, R.E., Goodman, J.S., Beckmann, N., & Cook, A. (2008). Mediation testing in management research: A review and proposals. Organizational Research Methods, 11(2), 270-295.
