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Lise Eliot

Chicago, North Chicago
As seen in: HuffPost, Nature, The Washington Post, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News UK, PLOS Biology, Fast Company, New Scientist, Scientific American and
Professor of Neuroscience & author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain and What's Going On in There? I study neural plasticity; brain, child & gender development.
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Ripple by The Washington Post

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By Lise Eliot
| The Washington Post
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 teaching and health care, whereas men are likelier to choose jobs working with “things,” such as in engineering or plumbing.
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It's a myth that baby boys are less social than girls: A new look at decades of research

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By Lise Eliot, Gaby Clark , Andrew Zinin 
| Phys.org
Credit: SAULO LEITE from Pexels 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.
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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

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By Lise Eliot, Rosalind E. Franklin
| Tolerance Canada
By Lise Eliot, Professor of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Pulling together the results of 40 experiments done by different teams over decades, researchers found that infant boys and girls equally tune in to human faces and voices. Read complete article © The Conversation -
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