What mediation analysis can (not) do

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1231-1236

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Schott, Malte ^a   Meiser, Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Causal model; Sobel test; Spurious mediator

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051866793     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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