Lead researcher Alicia Cast, an associate professor the University of California-Santa Barbara, said: ‘I was talking about this paper with my husband and he commented on the attention he got when he was seen in public holding our son after he was born. Like: "Aren’t you a good dad", "Look at that new dad with his baby".

'Women get that feedback, too, because everybody loves a new baby. But that (benefit) may be countered by other things she’s experiencing that he’s not, in terms of how her body has changed and being more physically tired.

‘There’s a lot of attention paid to how women think about themselves – particularly their bodies and their physical attractiveness – after childbirth.

‘But to our knowledge there’s been nothing that looked at men’.

女人在怀孕期间可能会容光焕发，但现在研究发现，男人也会因此而感到自己魅力倍增——不过是在宝宝出生以后。

这一研究是首次对这一课题进行探讨，男人表示他们的自我形象在宝宝出生后有所改观，这就是初为人父的“潜在益处”。

科学家称，男人自我形象改善是因为他们刚目睹自己的微缩版降临世间，这让他们感觉自己男子气概倍增。

在男人抱着宝宝外出散步时，那些围着他们柔声交谈的女人们也让他们感到愉快。

相比之下，女人在孩子降生后却没有感觉自己形象有所改善，这可能是因为带小孩对女人的体力要求较高，让她们无暇自顾，所以感觉自己还是老样子。

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