"How much do I know?": Children's evaluations of their absolute and relative knowledge.

The current study explores the relation between how children evaluate their knowledge when thinking only about what they know (i.e., absolute knowledge) and when they compare their knowledge to that of an expert (i.

Does intellectual humility transmit intergenerationally? Examining relations between parent and child measures.

People vary drastically in their intellectual humility (i.e., their ability to recognize gaps in their knowledge).

Debunking the Santa myth: The process and aftermath of becoming skeptical about Santa.

Two studies examined the process and aftermath of coming to disbelieve in the myth of Santa Claus. In Study 1, 48 children ages 6-15 answered questions about how they discovered Santa was not real and how the discovery made them feel, and 44 of their parents shared their perspectives and how they promoted Santa. In Study 2, 383 adults reflected on their experiences shifting to disbelief in Santa Claus.