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Cognitive Representation

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A body of knowledge that an individual has stored in memory

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Salience

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The ability of a cue to attract attention in its context

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Association

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A link between two or more cognitive representations

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Accessibility

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The processing principle that the information that is most readily available generally has the most impact on thoughts, feelings, and behaviour

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Priming

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The activation of a cognitive representation to increase its accessibility and thus the likelihood that it will be used

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Kelley’s attribution theory

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People decide what attributions to make after considering the consistency, distinctiveness and consensus of a person’s behaviour

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Correspondent interference

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The tendency to infer an actor’s personal characteristics from observed behaviours, even when the inference is unjustified because other possible causes of the behaviour exist

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Fundamental attribution error

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Bias in attributing another’s behaviour more to internal than to situational causes

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Superficial processing

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Relying on accessible information to make inferences or judgements, while expending little effort in processing

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Systematic processing

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Giving thorough, effortful consideration to a wide range or information relevant to a judgement

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Causal attribution

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A judgement about the cause of a behaviour or other event

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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The process by which one person’s expectations about another become reality by eliciting behaviours that confirm the expectations

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Social psychology

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The scientific study of the effects of social and cognitive processes on the way individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others

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Social processes

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The ways in which input from the people and groups around us affect our thoughts, feelings, and actions

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Cognitive processes

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The ways in which our memories, perceptions, thoughts, emotions, and motives influence our understanding of the world and guide our actions

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Construction of reality

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The axiom that each person’s view of reality is a construction, shaped both by cognitive processes (the ways our minds work) and by social processes (input from others either actually present or imagined)

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Pervasiveness of social influence

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The axiom that other people influence virtually all of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviour, wether those others are physically present or not

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Seeking connectedness

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The motivational principle that people seek support, liking, and acceptance from the people and groups they care about and value

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Scientific theory

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A statement that satisfies three requirements: it is about constructs; it describes causal relations; and it is general in scope, although the range of generality differs for different theories

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Constructs

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Abstract and general concepts that are used in theories and that are not directly observable

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Construct validity

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The extent to which a test measure correspond to the theoretical constructs under investigation

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Internal validity

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The extent to which is can be concluded that changes in the independent variable actually caused changes in the dependent variable in a research study

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No experimental research

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A research design in which both the independent and the dependent variables are measured

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Experimental research

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A research design in which researchers randomly assign participants to different groups and manipulate one or more independent variables

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Random assignment

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The procedure of assigning participants to different experimental groups so that every participant has exactly the same chance as every other participant of being in any given group

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External validity

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The extender to which research results can be generalised to other appropriate people, times, and settings

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Self awareness

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A state of heightened awareness of the self, internal standards and wether we measure up to them

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Self expression

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A motive for choosing behaviours that are intended to reflect and express the self concept

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Self presentation

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A motive for choosing behaviours intended to create in observers a desired impression of the self

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Self monitoring

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A personality characteristic defined as the degree to which people are sensitive to the demands of social situations and shape their behaviours accordingly

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Coping strategies

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Efforts undertaken to reduce negative consequences of self-threatening events

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Exchange relationship

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A relationship in which people exchange rewards in order to receive benefits in return

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Cost-reward ration

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Tenet of social exchange theory, according to which looking for another is determined by calculating what it will cost to be reinforced by the other individual

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Communal relationship

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A relationship in which people reward their partner out of direct concern and to show caring

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Interdependence

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A situation in which each person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviours influence those of other people

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Close relationship

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A relationship involving strong and frequent interdependence in many domains of life

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Intimacy

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A positive emotional bond that includes understanding and support

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Commitment

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The combined forces that hold the partners together in an eduring relationship

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Attachment styles

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People’s basic securely attached, avoidant, or anxious orientation toward others in close relationships

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Social support

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Emotional and physical coping resources provided by other people

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Health Concordance

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Researchers have found that couples often couples often have similar or concordant health statuses

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Health concordant behaviours

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Couples are highly consistent in the healthy/unhealthy behaviours they perform, and a change in one partner’s health behaviour is often associated with a change in the other partner’s behaviour

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Behaviour convergence

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Those in relationships share a lifestyle as well as common stressors, e.g., common living environment, pool resources, eat together, share social networks.

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Cortisol

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Is a hormone that regulates a wide range of processes throughout the body

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Intimacy groups

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groups that are clearly tied together

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Task groups

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Groups that come together temporarily to achieve a specific goal

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Common bond groups

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Members have close personal bonds within the group

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Common identity groups

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members have close personal ties to the group itself

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Group socialisation

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The dynamic nature of a group over time, coming together to meet each other’s needs and accomplish goals

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Social norms

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The uniformities of behaviour and attitudes that determine, organise and differentiate groups from other groups

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Descriptive norms

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Norms that most people follow, whether they are right or wrong

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Injunctive norms

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Norms that are perceived as being approved of by other people

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Social roles

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Shared expectations of how people in a group are supposed to behave

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Deviants

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People who have deviated too far from the group norms

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Imposters

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People who pose as legitimate group members but are not - posing threat to the group

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role transition

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where your membership to a group ends due to a change, or development in which re-socialisation is not an option

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schism

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when groups break off and smaller groups form

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compliance

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people do as they are asked and required by formal regulations, but without changing their beliefs

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obeisance

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people doing as they are told by an authority figure

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normative influence

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conforming to the positive expectations of other people, to gain approval or avoid disapproval

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informational influence

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through a desire to be correct, in times of uncertainty others are used as a source of information and can lead to acceptance/conversion

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diachronic consistency

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each member of the minority must not waver in their opinion, in order to show stability over time

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synchronic consistency

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all members of the minority group have the same opinion, so are displaying stability across the group and it’s members

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stereotypes

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simplified but widely shared beliefs about the characteristics of groups and their members

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prejudice

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any positive or negative evaluation of a social group or it’s members

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discrimination

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unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they belong

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social group

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two or more people who share some common characteristics that is socially meaningful for themselves or for others

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social categorisation

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the process of identifying individual people as members of a social group because they share certain features that are typical of the group

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illusory correlation

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people perceive a relationship between variables even when no such relationship exists

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social identity theory

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theory of group membership and inter group relations based on self categorisation, social comparison, and the shared constructions of a shared self definition in terms of in group defining properties

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implicit association test

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reaction time test to measure attitudes - particularly unpopular attitudes that people might conceal

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our group homogeneity effect

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tendency to see people within a same group as being more ‘similar’ than they really are

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motives behind stereotyping

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mastery, connectedness, justifying the social structure

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confirmation bias

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search for, interpret, favour, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s pre-existing beliefs

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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based on their stereotypes, people treat others in ways that elicit stereotypic behaviour

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just world hypothesis

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people have a need to believe that their environment is a just and orderly place, where people usually get what they deserve

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tokenism

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performing positive actions towards members of minority or disadvantaged groups as a reaction to the discrimination they suffer

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affirmative action

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a collective name for policies designed to promote the employment of people from disadvantaged minority groups

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positive feedback bias

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the process of giving more positive feedback on work believed to have been performed by a minority member rather than a majority group member

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contact hypothesis

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the theory that certain types of direct contact between members of hostile groups will reduce stereotyping and prejudice

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extended contact effect

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finding that people are less prejudiced if they are friends with an in group member who they know to have good friendships with out group members

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imagined contact effect

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merely imagining positive encounters with people of minority groups will make people feel more positive towards that group

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stress

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the physiological or psychological response to internal or external stressors

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stressor

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an environmental stimulus or event that causes stress

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the social readjustment ratings scale

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a measurement of stress based on life events

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social support

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the provision of assistance or comfort to others, typically to help them cope with biological, psychological, and social stressors

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the buffering hypothesis

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the protection against stressful experiences that is afforded by an individual’s social support

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hostile sexism

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women pose a threat to men’s position

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benevolent sexism

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women are wonderful and necessary for
men’s happiness

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