According to the first international "Santa Claus survey", children usually believe in Santa until they are eight.
The study, presented by the phys.org scientific portal, also found that many children are not afraid of being included on Santa's list of evil, and many children who do not believe in Santa Claus, but continue to believe makes it like a grade.
Chris Boyle, a psychologist at the University of Exeter, has been questioning people around the world about how their views on Santa Claus changed and their faith in their parents changed after they learned that Santa was not the one they thought he was. The professor received 1200 answers to questions from all over the world, from adults who recalled their childhood memories.
According to the research, 34 percent of respondents want to still believe in Santa Claus, but 50 percent are happy that they no longer believe in it anymore. 34 percent of respondents said that their faith in Santa Claus improved his childhood behavior, but had no effect on 47 percent.
Researchers usually lost their faith in Santa Claus around 8 years of age. But 65 percent of the respondents still pretended to believe it. 56 percent of the respondents said that they did not shake their belief in adults when they learned the truth about Santa, but 30 percent did.
31 percent of the respondents did not dare to admit to their child that there was no Santa Claus when he asked, but 40 percent did not deny it.
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