Is Santa real? Examining children's beliefs in cultural figures and 'non-real' people
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 13:03
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Young children understand dinosaurs and The Wiggles are (or were!) real, and that fictional characters like Peter Pan and Spongebob are not real—but cultural figures like Santa or the Tooth Fairy occupy an ambiguous place in a child's pantheon, suggests a study published June 17, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rohan Kapitány from Keele University, and colleagues.