Use a library research database (e.g., PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, ERIC, Google Scholar) to find an article in your area of interest that used stepwise regression in the analysis. Read the article: are the authors more interested in prediction or explanation?

Pay special attention to the Discussion: do the authors make inferences from their regression that if a predictor variable were increased or reduced then people would change on the outcome? Was stepwise regression appropriate? Would some other method have been more appropriate?