In claiming that newborn girls respond more to human faces, Brizendine cites a meta-analysis by psychologist Erin McClure, which finds that female infants and toddlers tend to gaze longer than boys at faces showing emotional expressions. Brizendine "cited my work for a statement that girls are compelled from an early age to attend to faces, and there's just nothing in my study that points to that," McClure told me. She also objected to Brizendine's hyperbolic conclusions: "I've been misinterpreted to imply that there are huge differences in facial processing between males and females, and that's definitely not something you can draw from this."