Table 11.

Causal mediation analysis (Males).

	Avg. causal mediation effect	Direct effect	% of total effect mediated
	Inequality Aversion
Inequality	0.035	0.275	4.2%
Child Story	−0.025	0.397	−2.8%
Guilt Appeal	0.252	0.598	23.4%
Child Story + Guilt Appeal	0.096	0.543	11.8%
	Empathic Concern
Inequality	−0.007	0.300	−0.8%
Child Story	0.039	0.317	4.7%
Guilt Appeal	0.472*	0.358	44.9%
Child Story + Guilt Appeal	0.238	0.390	29.1%
	Manipulation
Inequality	0.059	0.265	6.8%
Child Story	0.111	0.306	12.0%
Guilt Appeal	0.094	0.767	9.0%
Child Story + Guilt Appeal	0.143	0.510	17.2%

Notes. The final treatment combines Child Story and Guilt Appeal treatment to increase degrees of freedom in estimation.

^*p < 0.05.