People who score higher on empathy tend to score low on prejudice; women also tend to have lower prejudice scores than men. You hypothesize that empathy MEDIATES the relationship between gender and prejudice. Of the following designs, which would be the most appropriate to use to test your hypothesis?
A) one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
B) path analysis
C) quasi-experiment
D) factorial ANOVA

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Path analysis is the best choice for testing a mediation hypothesis. It allows for the examination of direct and indirect effects of variables on an outcome variable, allowing for the assessment of whether the relationship between gender and prejudice is partially or fully mediated by empathy.

People Who Score Higher on Empathy Tend to Score Low