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Irresistible Attraction: Secrets of Personal Magnetism | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kevin Hogan, Mary Lee Labay, Jack Swaney
Publisher: Network 3000
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 2499
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 282
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0963508520
Dewey Decimal Number: 155
EAN: 9780963508522
ASIN: 0963508520
Publication Date: June 7, 2000
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Book Description
People form their first impression of you in three to four seconds! This book reveals to you the hidden secrets of attraction and charisma. You will learn to maximize your hidden and natural attributes to create an instant bond with anyone you meet! Learn how to: *Have them falling for you in a heartbeat!
*Communicate with others at the unconscious level.
*Make a great first impression with your body language.
*Know what their eyes are saying to you.
*Appear comfortable even when you aren't!
*Speak with confidence when you are nervous!
*Use specific words and phrases to influence them now!
*Create chemistry with anyone at will!
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 great book July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i got this book with the male female attraction in mind, but as i'm reading i realize that this is actually a useful book in life in general. filled with tips and open eye facts that usually pass by us without noticing. knowing these aspects of personality, can impact business life as well as social life. you learn that you can bring joy into someone's life not to attract them but just to make them feel good.
 If you are having relationship problem!!!! December 25, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found this book started off all right and Whoa! It went into relationship help and how to create a better communication strategy between an existing relationship. When I bought this book I thought that it would cover such things as charisma building and getting people to gain a better judgment of you when you first meet the person. As they say first impressions last. But no, it went off into a tangent and I found it hard to keep reading with out getting bored.
Other then that a satisfactory book.
Some good ideas but I can not whole-heartedly recommend it November 16, 2007
23 out of 29 found this review helpful
This book contains some materials useful for general reader regarding how to be an attractive person, both in friendship and love life. I found the discussion regarding body language especially helpful (one of the two authors, Kevin Hogan, is mentioned in the back cover to be an authority in body language). I only gave two stars to this book for the following reasons:
1- On the average, in every page of the book there was either a typing or a grammatical error. It is quite apparent that the authors and the editor did not take any time to reread the book. Sometimes, in my opinion, the mistakes are quite embarrassing (for example, on page 230, the name of the well-known couple-psychologist Harville Hendrix is written as Harville Haddix). Generally, such mistakes distracted me from focusing on the points that the book was making.
2- Sometimes an idea was presented that was such an over-generalization that it lost its validity. For example, on page 26 it is stated that "There is little that a woman possesses that can entice a man beyond her physical attractiveness. This doesn't mean that if a woman is not physically attractive that she has no opportunity to find happiness. It does mean that physical attractiveness is far and away the number one trait that men look for in women. No other individual trait comes close to a woman's appearance." In the same page it continues "Men do not find women attractive because of their wealth, their success, and their potential for achievement. Men are not typically impressed or attracted to women who have succeeded in business or done anything remarkable. The makeup of men is much different in attraction." I do believe that the above statement may be true about some men and certainly physical attractiveness is generally very important for men in the initial stage(s) of interaction, but later other factor may enter into consideration beside the woman's degree of attraction. If women's attractiveness was the only criterion that men considered when choosing women, then one would expect that all married women should be attractive. Certainly this is not the case and men do value other traits of a woman, albeit the fact that they do over-value attractiveness.
3- Throughout the book, there were statements written in bold face and placed in a box, apparently to emphasize the point of the statement. Unfortunately, sometimes it appeared that statements were randomly chosen so that they were not the main point of the subject being discussed (for example, page 107). Other times the boxed statement could not be understood unless you read the text. For example, on page 96 the statement read "It is highly recommended to spend some time in front of mirror making faces at yourself".
4- In some pages, there were references mentioned that were not included in the bibliography (for example pages 44-45). The bibliography itself is only one page and it would have been best to be eliminated entirely since it is so short.
5- A large part of the book was devoted to statement that were common sense and an average adult with some general information should already know them.
So although the book does have some good ideas, I can not recommend the book for the adult reader. However, it may be still useful for a teenager or young adult.
I would also like to mention that many of the 5 star review were probably done by authors' friends.
Very insightful. November 14, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me begin by saying this is my first review ever written for a book on Amazon. I recently received this gem this past summer and just now (November, 2007) read it, and it two days I may add. This book offers a lot of insightful tips and tricks on what is proactive in communicating ideas to those you are conversing with. Everything from posture to subtle wording of phrases and sentences. This is by no means a panoptic bible encompassing all there is to know about persuasion and charisma, but the wisdom it does provide is easily worth the cover price.
Remarkable October 23, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Irresistible Attraction: Secrets of Personal Magnetism" by Kevin Hogan and Mary Lee LaBay...you will learn about the secrets of charisma by reading this most informative book. You will also learn how to develop instantaneous rapport with anyone you meet, and how to enhance communication with others at a subconscious level.
A remarkable and fascinating book that I highly recommend.
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