Sex differences in attention are present at birth

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11 points | by gmays 13 hours ago ago

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  • zenapollo an hour ago ago

    Wandering in a Barnes and Noble in 2007, stumbled into The Female Brain and read it cover to cover.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book)

    It’s a simple concept but extremely illuminating. Mostly because of natural hormone specifics, females through different stages of development, gravitate toward specific social behaviors that shape their development as people.

    She cites the original study (the one this replicated).

    Infant girls track their mother’s face and social responses, in a way that boys simply don’t attend to (until many years later)