Children's Belief in Santa Claus, Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 46 (3) , 691-694
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1980.46.3.691
Abstract
147 4- to 10-yr.-old children were identified at the preoperational, transitional, and concrete operation stages of cognitive development and were interviewed as to their beliefs in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. Both age and stage were significantly related to belief in these fantasy figures, but when age was controlled, the correlations were nonsignificant for stage and belief. The age at which disbelief occurred was about 8 yr. for both boys and girls.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- J. Piaget and S. Claus: Psychology Makes Strange BedfellowsPsychological Reports, 1976