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Research and Publications

My research falls into four major areas. Please click on one to see an overview and representative publications

1) Moral Judgment and the Social Intuitionist model (and moral politics)
2) Elevation and the self-transcendent emotions
3) Disgust and the Disgust Scale
4) Cultural Psychology

Here is my Curriculum Vitae

Here is a complete list of all publications

Books:

1)

Keyes, C. L. M., & Haidt, J. (Eds.) (2003). Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well lived. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

2)

Haidt, J. (2006). The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. New York : Basic Books.

3) Haidt, J. (in prep) The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion. Book under contract with Pantheon/Knopf (USA) and Penguin (UK), to be completed in 2009 and published in 2010.

 

Articles  (** indicates most important publications)

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**Haidt, J., Koller, S., & Dias, M. (1993). Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 613-628. Request paper

2

Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. (1993). Disgust. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.) Handbook of emotions. New York: Guilford Press.

3

Shweder, R., & Haidt, J. (1993). The future of moral psychology: Truth, intuition, and the pluralist way. Psychological Science, 4, 360-365. Request paper

4

Imada, S., Yamada, Y., & Haidt, J. (1993). The differences of Ken'o (disgust) experiences for Japanese and American students. Studies in the Humanities and Sciences, Hiroshima-Shudo University , 34, 155-173. Request Paper

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Haidt, J., McCauley, C., & Rozin, P. (1994) . Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 701-713. Request Paper

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Haidt, J., & Koller, S. (1994). Julgamento moral nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil: Uma visÃo intuicionista. (English title: "Moral judgment in the United States and Brazil: An intuitionist view.") Psicologia: ReflexÃo e Critica, 7, 79-94. (Brazil ). Request Paper

7

Haidt, J. & Rodin, J. (1995). Control and efficacy: An integrative review. Report to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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Haidt, J. & Baron, J. (1996). Social roles and the moral judgement of acts and omissions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 26, 201-218. Request Paper

9

Haidt, J., Rozin, P., McCauley, C., & Imada, S. (1997). Body, psyche, and culture: The relationship of disgust to morality. Psychology and Developing Societies, 9, 107-131. View Paper

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Rozin, P., Haidt, J., McCauley, C., & Imada, S. (1997). Disgust: Preadaptation and the cultural evolution of a food-based emotion. In H. MacBeth (Ed.) Food preferences and taste. Providence: Berghahn Books, 65-82.

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Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (1999). Disgust: The body and soul emotion. In T. Dalgleish & M. Power (Eds.). Handbook of cognition and emotion. Chichester, UK: Wiley. 429-445. Request Paper

12

Rozin, P., Lowery, L., Imada, S., & Haidt, J. (1999) The moral-emotion triad hypothesis: A mapping between three moral emotions (contempt, anger, disgust) and three moral ethics (community, autonomy, divinity). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 574-586. Request Paper

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** Haidt, J. & Keltner, D. (1999). Culture and emotion: Multiple methods find new faces and a gradient of recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 225-266. Request Paper

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Rozin, P., Haidt, J., McCauley, C., Dunlop, L., & Ashmore, M . (1999). Individual differences in disgust sensitivity: Comparisons and evaluations of paper-and-pencil versus behavioral measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 33, 330-351. Request Paper

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Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (1999). The social functions of emotions at four levels of analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 505-522. Request Paper

16

Haidt, J. & Rodin, J. (1999) Control and efficacy as interdisciplinary bridges. Review of General Psychology, 3, 317-337. Request Paper

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** Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2000). Disgust. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Eds.) Handbook of emotions, 2nd edition, (pp.637-653). New York: Guilford Press. Request Paper

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Shweder, R. A., & Haidt, J. (2000). The cultural psychology of the emotions: Ancient and new. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Ed.), Handbook of emotions, 2nd edition, (pp. 397-414). New York: Guilford . Request Paper

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Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (2001). Social functions of emotions. In T. Mayne & G. A. Bonanno (Eds.), Emotions: Current issues and future directions. New York: Guilford Press. (pp. 192-213). View Paper

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Haidt, J . (2000). The positive emotion of elevation. Prevention and Treatment, 3. Request Paper

21

Haidt, J., & Hersh, M. (2001). Sexual morality: The cultures and emotions of conservatives and liberals. Journal of Applied Social Psychology,31, 191-221. Request Paper

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** Haidt, J . (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review. 108, 814-834. Request Paper

23

Haidt, J. (2002). “Dialogue between my head and my heart:” Affective influences on moral judgment. Psychological Inquiry, 13, 54-56. View Paper

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Greene, J., & Haidt, J. (2002). How (and where) does moral judgment work? Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, 517-523. Request Paper

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Haidt, J. (2003). The moral emotions. In R. J. Davidson, K. R. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.(pp. 852-870). View Paper

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** Haidt, J. (2003). Elevation and the positive psychology of morality. In C. L. M. Keyes & J. Haidt (Eds.) Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived. Washington DC : American Psychological Association. (pp. 275-289). View Paper

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Keyes, C. L. M., & Haidt, J. (2003). Positive Psychology: The study of ‘That Which Makes Life Worthwhile.” In C. L. M. Keyes & J. Haidt (Eds.) Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived. Washington DC : American Psychological Association. (pp. 3-12). View Paper

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**Keltner, D., & Haidt, J . (2003). Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 297-314. Request Paper

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Haidt, J., Rosenberg, E., & Hom, H . (2003). Differentiating diversities: Moral diversity is not like other kinds. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 1-36. Request Paper

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Haidt, J. (2003). The emotional dog does learn new tricks: A reply to Pizarro and Bloom (2003). Psychological Review, 110, 197-198. Request Paper

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Haidt, J. & Keltner, D . (2004). Appreciation of beauty and excellence. In C. Peterson and M. E. P. Seligman (Eds.) Character strengths and virtues. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press. pp. 537-551. Request Paper

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Haidt, J., & Algoe, S. (2004). Moral amplification and the emotions that attach us to saints and demons. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & Tom Pyszczynski (Eds.) Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology. New York: Guilford. View Paper

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Haidt, J. (2004). The emotional dog gets mistaken for a possum. Review of General Psychology, 8, 283-290. Request Paper

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Mick, D. G., Broniarczyk , S. M., & Haidt, J. (2004). Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose, Choose: Emerging and Prospective Research on the Deleterious Effects of Living in Consumer Hyperchoice. Journal of Business Ethics, 207-211. Request Paper

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**Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: How Innately Prepared Intuitions Generate Culturally Variable Virtues. Daedalus, pp. 55-66, Special issue on human nature. Request Paper

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Gable, S., & Haidt, J. (2005). Positive Psychology. Review of General Psychology, 9, 1089-2680. [Introduction to special issue on positive psychology] Request Paper

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Wheatley, T., & Haidt, J. (2005). Hypnotically induced disgust makes moral judgments more severe. Psychological Science, 16, 780-784.

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Haidt, J. (2005). Invisible fences of the moral domain. (Commentary on Sunstein, “Moral Heuristics”). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, pp. 552-553. Request Paper

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Haidt, J. et al. (2006). What is the role of heuristics in making law? In C. Engel and G. Gigerenzer, eds. Heuristics and the Law. Dahlem Workshop Report 94. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press. Website for the book is here. Request Paper

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Keltner, D., Haidt, J., & Shiota, L. (2006). Social Functionalism and the Evolution of Emotions. In M. Schaller, D. Kenrick, & J. Simpson (Eds.) Evolution and Social Psychology pp. 115-142. View Paper
41 **Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2007). When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize. Social Justice Research, 20, 98-116. Request Paper
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Haidt, J., & Kesebir, S. (2007). In the forest of value: Why moral intuitions are different from other kinds. In H. Plessner, C. Betsch, & T. Betsch (eds.) A new look on intuition in judgment and decision making. Request Paper
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Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2007). The moral mind: How 5 sets of innate moral intuitions guide the development of many culture-specific virtues, and perhaps even modules. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, and S. Stich (Eds.) The Innate Mind, Vol. 3. View Paper
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** Haidt, J. (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology. Science, 316, 998-1002. Request Paper
45 Haidt, J. (2007) Response (to a letter by David Barash), Science, 317, 596-597.
46 **Haidt, J. (2007) Moral psychology and the misunderstanding of religion. Published on www.edge.org, 9/9/07. View Paper
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Haidt, J. (2007). Doing science as if groups existed. Published on www.edge.org, 12/7/07. View Paper
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Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2008). Disgust. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones & L. F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of emotions, 3rd ed. (pp. 757-776). New York: Guilford Press. Request Paper

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**Haidt, J., & Bjorklund, F. (2008). Social intuitionists answer six questions about moral psychology. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pp. 181-217). View Paper
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Haidt, J., & Bjorklund, F. (2008). Social intuitionists reason, as a normal part of conversation. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong (Ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 2: The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Request Paper
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Shweder, R. A., Haidt, J., Horton, R., & Joseph, C. (2008). The cultural psychology of the emotions: Ancient and renewed. In M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones & L. F. Barrett (Eds.), Handbook of emotions, 3rd ed. (pp. 409-427). New York: Guilford Press. Request Paper
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**Haidt, J. (2008). Morality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 65-72. Request Paper
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Silvers, J., & Haidt, J. (2008). Moral Elevation Can Induce Lactation. Emotion, 8, 291-295. Request Paper
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**Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G., & Jordan, A. (2008). Disgust as embodied moral judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1096-1109. Request Paper
55 ** Haidt, J. (2008) What makes people vote Republican? Published on www.edge.org, 9/9/08. View Paper
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Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2008). Disgust: The body and soul emotion in the 21st century. In D. McKay & O. Olatunji (eds.), Disgust and its disorders. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. P. 9-29. View Paper
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Olatunji, B. O., Haidt, J., McKay, D., David, B., (2008). Core, animal reminder, and contamination disgust: Three kinds of disgust with distinct personality, behavioral, physiological, and clinical correlates. Journal of Research in Personality, 42. 1243-1259. Request Paper
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Algoe, S., & Haidt, J., & Gable, S. (2008). Beyond reciprocity: Gratitude and relationships in everyday life. Emotion, 8, 425-429. Request Paper
59 Haidt, J., Seder, P., & Kesebir, S. (2008). Hive Psychology, Happiness, and Public Policy. Journal of Legal Studies. Request Paper
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Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Rimm-Kaufman, S. E. (2008). Ideology and intuition in moral education. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 269-286. Request Paper
61 Haidt, J. (2009). Obama’s moral majority. Prospect, 155 (Feb 2009). View Paper
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**Haidt, J., & Graham, J. (2009). Planet of the Durkheimians, Where Community, Authority, and Sacredness are Foundations of Morality. In J. Jost, A. C. Kay, & H. Thorisdottir (Eds.), Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification. Request Paper
63 Algoe, S., Haidt, J., (2009). Witnessing Excellence in Action: The other-praising emotions of elevation, admiration, and gratitude. Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 105-127. Request Paper
64 **Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. (2009). Liberals and conservatives use different sets of moral foundations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 1029-1046. Request Paper
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Haidt, J., & Morris, J. P. (2009). Finding the self in self-transcendent emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 7687-7688. Request Paper
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Sherman, G., Haidt, J., & Coan, J. (2009). Viewing cute images increases behavioral carefulness. Emotion, 9, 282-286. Request Paper
67 Oveis, C., Cohen, A. B., Gruber, J., Shiota, M. N., Haidt, J., & Keltner, D. (2009). Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia is associated with tonic positive emotionality. Emotion, 265-270. Request Paper
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Olatunji, B. O., Moretz, M. W., Bjorklund, F., de Jong, P., Haidt, J., Hursti, T. J., Imada, S., Koller, S., Mancini, F., McKay, D., Page, A. C., & Schienle, A. (2009). Confirming the Three-Factor Structure of the Disgust Scale-Revised in Eight Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 234-255. Request Paper
69 Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & Fincher, K. (2009). From oral to moral. Science, 323, 1179-1180. Request Paper
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Haidt, J., Graham, J., & Joseph, C. (2009). Above and below left-right: Ideological narratives and moral foundations. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 110-119. Request Paper
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Joseph, C., Graham, J., & Haidt, J. (2009). The end of equipotentiality: A moral foundations approach to ideology-attitude links and cognitive complexity. Psychological Inquiry, 20, 172-176.
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Glenn, A., Koleva, S., Iyer, R., Graham, J., Haidt, J. (2009). Are all types of morality compromised in psychopathy?. Journal of Personality Disorders, 23, 384-398. Request Paper
73 Haidt, J., & Seder, P. (2009) Admiration and Awe. Entry for the Oxford Companion to Affective Science. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.4-5.. Request Paper
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Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. R. (2009). Disgust. Entry for the Oxford Companion to Affective Science. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp.121-122. Request Paper
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Articles in press (accepted for publication)

 

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Haidt, J. (in press). Meaning in life, and how it emerges. Commentary on Susan Wolf’s Tanner Lectures at Princeton. To be published by Princeton University Press. Request Paper
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**Haidt, J., & Kesebir, S. (in press). Morality. In S. Fiske, & D. Gilbert (Eds.) Handbook of Social Psychology, 5th Edition. Request Paper
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Lobue, V., Nishida, T., Chiong, C., Deloache, J., & Haidt, J. (in press). When getting something good is bad: Even 3-year-olds react to inequality. Social Development. Request paper
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Graham, J. & Haidt, J. (in press). Beyond Beliefs: Religion Binds Individuals into Moral Communities. Personality and Social Psychology Review. Request Paper
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Haidt, J. (in press). Moral psychology must not be based on faith and hope. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

 

 

To obtain an electronic copy of recent papers that are not posted, please email me: haidt at virginia.edu

To see articles about my work, or to view talks I have given about moral psychology, please click here.

Working papers (under review or revision):

Graham, J., Nosek, B., & Haidt, J. (submitted). The Moral Stereotypes of Liberals and Conservatives: Exaggeration across the Political Divide. Request Paper

Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (submitted). Broadening and Mapping the Moral Domain: Development and Validation of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. (under review at JPSP). Request paper

Iyer, R., Graham, J., Koleva, S., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J (submitted). Beyond Identity Politics: Moral Psychology and the 2008 Democratic Primary. (Under review at Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy)

Haidt, J., Sabini, J., Gromet, D., & Darley, J. (n.d.). What exactly makes revenge sweet?

Koleva, S., Graham, J., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Ditto, P. (submitted). The ties that bind: How five moral concerns organize and explain political attitudes. (Under review at PSPB). Request Paper

Sherman, G., Oveis, C.,  Haidt, J., & Coan, J. (n.d.). Why good deeds make us cry: Interpersonal tenderness and vagal withdrawal.

Sherman, G., Haidt, J., & Coan, J. (n.d.). Nazis really are disgusting: Psychophysiological evidence for sociomoral disgust.

Vianello, M., Galliani, E. M., & Haidt, J. (submitted). Elevation at work: The organizational effects of leaders’ moral excellence.(under review at Motivation and Emotion). Request Paper

Popular press or less academic articles(selected)
Haidt, J. (2006). “Higher Ground.”  Psychotherapy Networker. January/February issue, p.49
Haidt, J. (2006). “The morality of a billiard table versus the morality of a hive.”
Haidt, J. (2006). “Humans are Hive Creatures.” Free Inquiry, 26, p.47.
Haidt, J. (2007). “The Spirit of Dharmacracy.” Op-ed, Los Angeles Times, 1/14/07
Haidt, J. (2007). “Honey I shrunk the President.” Op-ed, Los Angeles Times, 12/16/07
Haidt, J. (2007). The baby boomers will soon retire. In J. Brockman (Ed.). What are you optimistic about? New York: Harper Perennial.
Haidt, J. (2009). Hanging out with the boys. In J. Brockman (Ed.). What have you changed your mind about? New York: HarperCollins.

 

 


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