ABSTRACT
A major focus of our expansions pertain to the considerable diversity of metacognitive beliefs. We have argued that the metacognitive arena may be opened up to include, among other things, social norms about how people ought to think and folk or intuitive theories about how human beings do think. What this means is that the range of influential metacognitive phenomena is much greater than has been recognized to date. Metacognitive beliefs may be descriptive or normative, momentary or enduring, and directed at the self or directed more generally at other people or at the cognitive system at large.
