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It’s a myth that baby boys are less social than girls – a new look at decades of research shows all babies are born to connect

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lise Eliot, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (THE CONVERSATION) ...
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It’s a myth that baby boys are less social than girls – a new look at decades of research shows all babies are born to connect

Girls and boys are equally social at birth. This finding, based on my team’s synthesis of six decades of research, may come as a surprise. Gender differences in adults’ social sensitivity are famous.
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It’s a myth that baby boys are less social than girls – a new look at decades of research shows all babies are born to connect

Realizing that psychologists have been studying newborns’ social orientation for decades, my team of neurobehavioral researchers and I set out to collect all the data – every published study that has ...