1. Use a literature research database to find an article in an area of interest to you with the word                          mediation in either the title or the abstract. Read the abstract to make...

1. Use a literature research database to find an article in an area of interest to you with the wordmediation
in either the title or the abstract. Read the abstract to make sure the term mediation refers to  statistical mediation (rather than, say, legal mediation). Read  the article. Do the authors also refer to mediation as an indirect effect? How do they test for mediation? Do they use any of the methods  described in this chapter, or do they use structural equation modeling? Do you understand the test that was used?

2. Search for an article in your area of interest with the words
moderation
or
moderated regression
in the title or abstract. Read the abstract to make sure regression was used.
Read the article. Is moderation also referred to as an interaction? Which variables interact?
Were they continuous or categorical? Did the authors use techniques like those
described in Chapters 7 and 8? Were the variables of interest centered prior to creating
a cross product? Was the article understandable in light of the last three chapters?