Today's little tidbit came once again,from a question on Millionaire. I happened to know the answer from hours spent reading comic books on rainy days as a child. The question was something like "William Martson,inventor of the lie detector also invented which comic book character who used a Golden Lasso of Truth?" The answer was Wonder Woman. That prompted me to find out more.
Martson was a psychologist educated at Harvard in the 1920s. He lived with his wife and another woman in a polyamourous relationship,the Wonder Woman character was based on these two women. He originally named Wonder Woman Suprema,but an editor replaced that name with Wonder Woman. From his psychological work Martson had found women to be more honest and reliable than men and could work faster and more accurately. It was his wife that suggested to Martson that when she got excited her blood pressure seemed to climb,and from that he created the systolic blood pressure test,which is a component of the modern polygraph and links that device to the Lasso of Truth.
Martson was a psychologist educated at Harvard in the 1920s. He lived with his wife and another woman in a polyamourous relationship,the Wonder Woman character was based on these two women. He originally named Wonder Woman Suprema,but an editor replaced that name with Wonder Woman. From his psychological work Martson had found women to be more honest and reliable than men and could work faster and more accurately. It was his wife that suggested to Martson that when she got excited her blood pressure seemed to climb,and from that he created the systolic blood pressure test,which is a component of the modern polygraph and links that device to the Lasso of Truth.
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