Newborn face‑gaze sex gap

A fresh replication finds newborn girls (≈33 hours old) preferentially gaze at faces more than non‑social objects, while boys show no clear preference, suggesting an attention difference that appears before postnatal socialization. If robust, this neonatal social‑attention gap could be an early mechanism shaping later sex differences in social skills and language. — If neonatal attention differences are real and widespread, they change how policymakers, educators, and advocates should frame early childhood interventions and expectations about sexed behavior.