In attempting to account for the current body of empirical findings, we propose four potential substantive and methodological explanations that should be explored in future studies.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Religion and the Forgiving Personality (1999) · doi

  In attempting to account for the current body of empirical findings, we propose four potential substantive and methodological explanations that should be explored in future studies.

  Keywords: attempting account current body empirical propose four potential substantive methodological explanations explored future
• Lifetime risk and persistence of psychiatric disorders across ethnic groups in the United States (2004) · doi

  Future research should focus on explanations for these findings, including the possibility that these comparisons are biased, and on potential means of reducing the disparity in persistence of disorders across ethnic groups.

  Keywords: future focus explanations including possibility comparisons biased potential means reducing disparity persistence disorders across ethnic
• Reported history of childhood trauma and stress‐related vulnerability: Associations with emotion regulation, executive functioning, daily hassles and pre‐sleep arousal (2020) · doi

  Mechanisms for these associations are not well understood because past studies have focused predominantly on populations that have already developed physical and mental health problems.

  Keywords: mechanisms associations well understood past focused predominantly populations already developed physical mental health problems