Santa Claus alone is not enough for a merry Christmas
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He makes a list and checks it twice, but Santa’s monitoring of the festival apparently does nothing to improve children’s behavior. In fact, broader Christmas rituals such as putting up trees and caroling may encourage children to be a little nicer. The findings may help us better understand how religion influences behavior.
“The question is whether belief in Santa Claus influences children’s behavior,” said Rohan Kapitani of the University of Durham in the UK. “This belief…
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