Visiting Santa: a further look.
An informal enquiry of the facial expressions of children as they queued up to meet Santa Claus during the 2003 Yuletide season showed that about 8 out of 10 children appeared to be indifferent to seeing Santa. This replication of the study in 2004 resulted in an approximately similar finding. A repeat of these enquiries, in 2005, suggested that the indifference rate appeared to lessen (being somewhat more cheerful) the closer was Christmas.
Trinkaus
John
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Zichlin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York, NY 10010, USA.
D000339:Affect; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005149:Facial Expression; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006693:Holidays; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment