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Our paper “Visual Attention to Faces: Sex Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder” was recently accepted for publication in Molecular Autism. In this study, we used eye tracking to quantify visual attention to faces within scenes that varied in their social richness (we characterized them as socially lean and socially rich). We found that when scenes conveyed an interaction between actors (socially rich), attention to faces was reduced in ASD and comparable between ASD males and females., However, when the scene was socially lean we did not find the same effects – ASD females attended more to faces than ASD males and their attention was comparable to controls. This study builds on our previous findings and suggests a different social profile in ASD females.