Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (don’t expect an easy answer).

The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.

Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037//0022-3514.51.6.1173 · Cited by 91,542 · see citing works

A general approach to causal mediation analysis.

Imai, K., Keele, L., & Tingley, D. (2010) · Psychological Methods · doi:10.1037/a0020761 · Cited by 4,143 · see citing works

Statistical mediation analysis with a multicategorical independent variable

Hayes, A. F., & Preacher, K. J. (2014) · British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology · doi:10.1111/bmsp.12028 · Cited by 3,403 · see citing works

Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well‐Being Contributes to Health and Longevity

Diener, E., & Chan, M. Y. (2011) · Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being · doi:10.1111/j.1758-0854.2010.01045.x · Cited by 2,260 · see citing works

Identification, Inference and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Mediation Effects

Imai, K., Keele, L., & Yamamoto, T. (2010) · Statistical Science · doi:10.1214/10-sts321 · Cited by 1,628 · see citing works

The Nature and Origins of Misperceptions: Understanding False and Unsupported Beliefs About Politics

Flynn, D. J., Nyhan, B., & Reifler, J. (2017) · Political Psychology · doi:10.1111/pops.12394 · Cited by 1,183 · see citing works

The relationship between nature connectedness and happiness: a meta-analysis

Capaldi, C. A., Dopko, R. L., & Zelenski, J. M. (2014) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00976 · Cited by 1,183 · see citing works

Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data

Rohrer, J. M. (2018) · Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/2515245917745629 · Cited by 1,002 · see citing works

How Conditioning on Posttreatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do about It

Montgomery, J. M., Nyhan, B., & Torres, M. (2018) · American Journal of Political Science · doi:10.1111/ajps.12357 · Cited by 800 · see citing works

A meta-analysis of procedures to change implicit measures

Forscher, P. S., Lai, C. K., Axt, J. R., Ebersole, C. R., Herman, M., Devine, P. G., & Nosek, B. A. (2019) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/pspa0000160 · Cited by 700 · see citing works

Design approaches to experimental mediation

Pirlott, A. G., & MacKinnon, D. P. (2016) · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.09.012 · Cited by 575 · see citing works

Brief intervention to encourage empathic discipline cuts suspension rates in half among adolescents

Okonofua, J. A., Paunesku, D., & Walton, G. M. (2016) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1523698113 · Cited by 510 · see citing works

Cooperation is in our nature: Nature exposure may promote cooperative and environmentally sustainable behavior

Zelenski, J. M., Dopko, R. L., & Capaldi, C. A. (2015) · Journal of Environmental Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.01.005 · Cited by 428 · see citing works

Experimental Designs for Identifying Causal Mechanisms

Imai, K., Tingley, D., & Yamamoto, T. (2013) · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society · doi:10.1111/j.1467-985x.2012.01032.x · Cited by 408 · see citing works

Employees’ adaptability and perceptions of change-related uncertainty: implications for perceived organizational support, job satisfaction, and performance.

Cullen, K. L., Edwards, B. D., Casper, W. C., & Gue, K. R. (2014) · Journal of Business and Psychology · doi:10.1007/s10869-013-9312-y · Cited by 377 · see citing works

How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., Gentzkow, M., et al. (2023) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.abp9364 · Cited by 363 · see citing works

Understanding, explaining, and utilizing medical artificial intelligence

Cadario, R., Longoni, C., & Morewedge, C. K. (2021) · Nature Human Behaviour · doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01146-0 · Cited by 342 · see citing works

Nostalgia fosters self-continuity: Uncovering the mechanism (social connectedness) and consequence (eudaimonic well-being)

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Cheung, W.-Y., Routledge, C., Hepper, E. G., Arndt, J., Vail, K., Zhou, X., Brackstone, K., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2016) · Emotion · doi:10.1037/emo0000136 · Cited by 318 · see citing works

Effects of cognitive behaviour therapy for worry on persecutory delusions in patients with psychosis (WIT): a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial with a mediation analysis.

Freeman, D., Dunn, G., Startup, H., Pugh, K., Cordwell, J., Mander, H., Černis, E., Wingham, G., Shirvell, K., & Kingdon, D. (2015) · The Lancet Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(15)00039-5 · Cited by 295 · see citing works

The gateway belief model: a large-scale replication

van der Linden, S., Leiserowitz, A., & Maibach, E. (2019) · Journal of Environmental Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.01.009 · Cited by 262 · see citing works

That’s a Lot to Process! Pitfalls of Popular Path Models

Rohrer, J. M., Hünermund, P., Arslan, R. C., & Elson, M. (2022) · Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/25152459221095827 · Cited by 267 · see citing works

Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group.

Wildschut, T., Bruder, M., Robertson, S., van Tilburg, W. A. P., & Sedikides, C. (2014) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0037760 · Cited by 197 · see citing works

Improving classroom quality with the ruler approach to social and emotional learning: Proximal and distal outcomes

Hagelskamp, C., Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S. E., & Salovey, P. (2013) · American Journal of Community Psychology · doi:10.1007/s10464-013-9570-x · Cited by 160 · see citing works

On the Overuse and Misuse of Mediation Analysis: It May Be a Matter of Timing

Tate, C. U. (2015) · Basic and Applied Social Psychology · doi:10.1080/01973533.2015.1062380 · Cited by 153 · see citing works

Nostalgia-Evoked Inspiration: Mediating Mechanisms and Motivational Implications

Stephan, E., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Cheung, W.-Y., Routledge, C., & Arndt, J. (2015) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · doi:10.1177/0146167215596985 · Cited by 148 · see citing works

The “true” indirect effect won't (always) stand up: When and why reverse mediation testing fails

Lemmer, G., & Gollwitzer, M. (2017) · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2016.05.002 · Cited by 145 · see citing works

Visualizing minimal ingroup and outgroup faces: Implications for impressions, attitudes, and behavior.

Ratner, K. G., Dotsch, R., Wigboldus, D. H. J., van Knippenberg, A., & Amodio, D. M. (2014) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0036498 · Cited by 144 · see citing works

Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for treatment-resistant depression in primary care: the CoBalT randomised controlled trial

Wiles, N., Thomas, L., Abel, A., Barnes, M., Carroll, F., Ridgway, N., Sherlock, S., Turner, N., Button, K., Odondi, L., et al. (2014) · Health Technology Assessment · doi:10.3310/hta18310 · Cited by 127 · see citing works

The promise and pitfalls of cross-partisan conversations for reducing affective polarization: Evidence from randomized experiments

Santoro, E., & Broockman, D. E. (2022) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.abn5515 · Cited by 126 · see citing works

Induced nostalgia increases optimism (via social-connectedness and self-esteem) among individuals high, but not low, in trait nostalgia

Cheung, W.-Y., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2016) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.028 · Cited by 87 · see citing works

Social context and the real-world consequences of social anxiety

Hur, J., DeYoung, K. A., Islam, S., Anderson, A. S., Barstead, M. G., & Shackman, A. J. (2020) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291719002022 · Cited by 74 · see citing works

A systematic review of psychosocial explanations for the relationship between socioeconomic status and body mass index

Claassen, M. A., Klein, O., Bratanova, B., Claes, N., & Corneille, O. (2019) · Appetite · doi:10.1016/j.appet.2018.07.017 · Cited by 67 · see citing works

Sociality and intergenerational transfer of older adults' nostalgia

Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Robertson, S. (2018) · Memory · doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1470645 · Cited by 58 · see citing works

Social responses to expressive suppression: the role of personality judgments

Tackman, A. M., & Srivastava, S. (2016) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/pspp0000053 · Cited by 50 · see citing works

Mechanisms of change in psychological interventions for posttraumatic stress symptoms: A systematic review with recommendations

Kangaslampi, S., & Peltonen, K. (2022) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-019-00478-5 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Compliance, noncompliance, and the in-between: causal effects of civilian demeanor on police officers’ cognitions and emotions

Nix, J., Pickett, J. T., & Mitchell, R. J. (2019) · Journal of Experimental Criminology · doi:10.1007/s11292-019-09363-4 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Questionnaires as interventions: Can taking a survey increase teachers’ openness to student feedback surveys?

Gehlbach, H., Robinson, C. D., Finefter-Rosenbluh, I., Benshoof, C., & Schneider, J. (2018) · Educational Psychology · doi:10.1080/01443410.2017.1349876 · Cited by 33 · see citing works

Nostalgia relieves the disillusioned mind

Maher, P. J., Igou, E. R., & van Tilburg, W. A. P. (2021) · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104061 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

Leader Inconsistency, Subjective Ambivalence, and Follower Outcomes

Suurd Ralph, C., & Barling, J. (2023) · Journal of Business and Psychology · doi:10.1007/s10869-022-09852-w · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Political engagement’s non-political roots: examining the role of basic psychological needs in the political domain

Wuttke, A. (2020) · Motivation and Emotion · doi:10.1007/s11031-019-09801-w · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Mindful attention awareness and cognitive defusion are indirectly associated with less PTSD-like symptoms via reduced maladaptive posttraumatic cognitions and avoidance coping.

Ito, D., Watanabe, A., & Osawa, K. (2023) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-021-01521-0 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Factual knowledge can reduce attitude polarization

Stagnaro, M. N., & Amsalem, E. (2025) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-58697-3 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Forced Versus Selective Exposure: Threatening Messages Lead to Anger but Not Dislike of Political Opponents

Dahlgren, P. M. (2022) · Journal of Media Psychology · doi:10.1027/1864-1105/a000302 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Selection Neglect and Political Beliefs

Brundage, M., Little, A. T., & You, S. (2022) · doi:10.31219/osf.io/p49at · Cited by 7 · see citing works

The Gender Gap in the Care Economy is Larger in Highly Developed Countries: Socio-cultural Explanations for Paradoxical Findings

Block, K., olsson, M. I. T., Schmader, T., van Laar, C., Martiny, S. E., Schuster, C., Van Grootel, S., Meeussen, L., & Croft, A. (2022) · doi:10.31234/osf.io/k6g5d · Cited by 7 · see citing works