When kids stop believing in Santa

Interestingly, when adults are interviewed, they say they remember believing for much longer. An AP poll from 2011 found that among adult respondents, 84 percent of people had ever believed in Santa, but the mean age at which they stopped thinking he was real was 8.8. Similarly, an earlier AP poll found that the age at which kids stopped believing varied by religion, but a good third to half of people across religions said they stopped believing between the ages of 9 and 12—much later than what the kids told Woolley: