Whether it's a guy at the gym, supermarket, at work, or online, what's the key to sparking

attraction? Today on the Lest Strategies podcast, I'm sharing seven science-backed ways to boost

attraction. A little while back, I did a science of flirting pod that ended up being one of the

top five most popular podcasts we did in all of 2024. So I'm back today with the science

of attraction. I'm Dr. Gary Lewandowski, chief love scientist at Love Strategies. I'm an award-winning

teacher, professor, speaker. I'm an author. I've been writing about the psychology of relationships

for years. At this point, over 10 million people have read my articles, watch my TED Talk. I've been writing about the psychology of relationships for years. At this point, over 10 million people have read my articles, watched my TED Talk.

I've been studying relationships for over 20 years.

So I'm a relationship scientist who talks about research, but does some of my own as well, including

research on attraction.

And so today I'm going to share insights on the golden role of attraction,

whether opposites really do attract, should you play hard to get,

ways the situation or context impact attraction, and how important is personality?

Or is attraction really all just physical?

What I like about this topic is so many people mistakenly believe that attraction is an all-or-nothing phenomenon.

Either you have it or you don't.

But the truth is, attraction can build.

It's malleable, which means we can influence it.

There's a lot of factors that go into attraction. I'm a social psychologist by training, which means we can influence it. There's a lot of factors that go into attraction.

I'm a social psychologist by training, which means I focus a lot on how the context,

people around us, influence our behavior, often in ways that we don't really realize

is happening.

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