The Mediation Myth

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Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment (2017, neutral): “However, to further reduce common source-common method biases, we recommend a full longitudinal design in which all variables are measured at multiple time points (Kline, 2015).”
Breaking the Habit: On the Highly Habitualized Nature of Meat Consumption and Implementation Intentions as One Effective Way of Reducing It (2018, background): “Including self-monitoring into the model reduced the link of the experimental condition with meat consumption from b ¼ −.50 to b ¼ −.21, indicating partial mediation (but see, e.g., Kline, 2015, for a critical perspective on mediation).”
Extracting the Variance Inflation Factor and Other Multicollinearity Diagnostics from Typical Regression Results (2017, methodology): “This theme is echoed by Kline (2015), part of Basic and Applied Social Psychology’s special issue on mediation analysis.”
The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses (2016, methodology): “of modularity (Kline, 2015), emphasis on parametercentered rather than person-centered analyses (Grice et al.”
Minority Stressors and Psychological Distress in Transgender Individuals (2017, neutral): “Strict definitions of mediation require tests of temporal precedence and maintain that cross-sectional date can only test for indirect effects, rather than mediation per se (Kline, 2015).”