Santa Claus and Sinterklaas/Saint Nicholas
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How beliefs are abandoned… or not

What happens to children when they begin to question whether Santa (or Saint Nicholas) is actually real, and eventually draw the inevitable conclusion? And what can we learn from their (and our) experience?

Koen Smets
6 min readDec 1, 2023

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Koen Smets

Accidental behavioural economist in search of wisdom. Uses insights from (behavioural) economics in organization development. On Twitter as @koenfucius