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

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

By Lise Eliot, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science 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. Women outperform men at recognizing faces and emotions, and they score modestly higher on measures of empathy. They are likelier to take jobs working with people, such as in teachi…