Adult social proof, not representability, sustains supernatural belief

Evidence

By all accounts, Santa Claus is a powerful moralizing god for children. Yet, when children become adults, Santa is transformed from god to myth, although adults continue to be able to mentally represent, remember, and transmit the mythical idea of Santa Claus, mainly back to children! — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 369

Categorization

• XREF: Santa’s god-to-myth transition parallels the social-proof mechanism central to reading Rodrigues’s crisis in Silence.