{"id":10988,"date":"2019-01-02T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:28:14","slug":"jim-davies-on-the-science-of-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2019\/jim-davies-on-the-science-of-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies on the Science of Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Jim Davies on the Science of Santa\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Jim Davies, <span style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">of Carleton University\u2019s Institute of Cognitive Science, <\/span>writes in <i>The Conversation <\/i>about the science of belief (and disbelief) in Santa Claus.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-science-of-saying-goodbye-to-santa-108235\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-science-of-saying-goodbye-to-santa-108235\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1543\" height=\"986\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1.jpg 1543w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1-160x102.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1-240x153.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1-400x256.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1-360x230.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/unnamed-file-1-200x128.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Jim Davies, of Carleton University\u2019s Institute of Cognitive Science, writes in The Conversation about the science of belief (and disbelief) in Santa Claus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16579,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions\/16579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}