According to a magazine article a magnetic personality is “when certain individuals enter a meeting or join a party in progress, and seem to exude a palpable sense of self-confidence and positive energy”, whilst other members of the same ‘group’ may act differently and have the opposite temperament. People may be instinctively drawn to such a ‘magnetic personality’ hence the word magnetic. According to the article, “a person blessed, or in some cases cursed, with a magnetic personality may not be the most physically attractive or best dressed in the room, but his or her personality and natural charisma makes him or her more compelling to be around”. These people attract attention and their personality makes them very popular indeed. A ‘Magnetic Personality’ is also said to be more accepted and liked than a ‘Nervous Temperament’.
Fleming, E. G. (1927). Personality as revealed by the galvanometer. The American Journal of Psychology.
Personality and Attraction 
I’d love to know what you think are the qualities of a magnetic personality – can we pin it down so we can develop our own, do you think?
According to a study and article by Bowden (1926) “personality may be considered as composed of two groups of factors, physical and social”. It was also stated in the article that “the distinctive factors that go into the cause of popularity and influence of leaders are not so much physical as social and personality may be considered a social product, the adjustment tendencies of the individual to his social environment”. A survey was given out to each student leader in a group of 40 colleges and personality tests were done accordingly.
Results showed that all participants were well balanced, of the ascendant type, and it was stated in the article that “most were of the extroverted, expansive social type and most of them also have splendid insight and good judgment”.
Therefore, a conclusion can be made that the previously listed skills and attributes are the qualities of someone who has a magnetic personality, as the participants were said to have had a magnetic personality since they were student leaders.
Bowden, A. O. (1926). A study of the personality of student leaders in colleges in the United States. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 21(2), 149.