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Original Articles

Beliefs about Memory as a Mediator of Relations between Metacognitive Beliefs and Actual Memory Performance

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Pages 21-44 | Received 29 Jun 2017, Accepted 24 Oct 2017, Published online: 16 Jan 2018

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