The lack of replication is particularly curious, because a large, older literature suggests that male and female infants are equally interested in people and objects (Maccoby&Jacklin,1974).Numerousexperimentsinthe1960s compared infants’ visual attention to faces versus inanimate patterns. One study, for example, assessed infants’ visual attention to a live person in a free play setting at one and three months and assessed their visual attention to pictures of faces and inanimate displays in a controlled setting at the latter age (Moss & Robson, 1968). Male and female infants looked equally at the live person at both ages. At three months, all infants looked longer at the face than the inanimate display, and this preference was greater for the male infants. These findings, like others from more recentresearch(seeRochat,2001,forareview),provideno evidence that male infants are more focused on objects and female infants are more focused on people from birth onward.