Children's Belief in Santa Claus: A Developmental Study of Fantasy and Causality
- 31 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry
- Vol. 18 (4) , 658-667
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-7138(09)62213-5
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