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All contributors of the Special Issue are members of the “European Network of Research on Epistemological Beliefs”, sponsored by DFG (….), or have contributed with invited addresses to their regular meetings from 2005 to 2009.
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Mason, L., Bromme, R. Situating and relating epistemological beliefs into metacognition: studies on beliefs about knowledge and knowing. Metacognition Learning 5, 1–6 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-009-9050-8
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