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  William Marston
Marston's research quickly caught the eye of the federal government, including the FBI and the Department of War, which wanted to use his techniques to question prisoners during World War I.
Marston was called in to consult on the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping case, but his contribution was rejected by the judge.
Marston's sexual ethics were based on a theory of gender characteristics that classed men as aggressive and conflict-oriented, and woman as "alluring" and submissive.
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  William Moulton Marston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893–May 2, 1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, creator of the "Wonder Woman" character and comic book writer.
The stories were initially written by Marston (under the pseudonym Charles Moulton) and illustrated by newspaper artist Harry Peter.
William Moulton Marston died of cancer on May 2, 1947 in Rye, New York.
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 William Moulton Marston
William Moulton Marston was a physician and the creator of the comic character Wonder Woman.
Marston saw that the DC line was filled with images of male superheroes such as Green Lantern, Batman, and their flagship character: Superman.
Marston was the creator of the systolic blood pressure test, which lead to the creation of the polygraph (lie detector).
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 Wonder Woman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Marston designed Wonder Woman as a distinctly (A supporter of feminism) feminist character and many subsequent writers, especially those of the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s and afterwards, have written her as such.
Marston saw that the DC line was filled with images of super men such as (Click link for more info and facts about Green Lantern) Green Lantern, (An orderly assigned to serve a British military officer) Batman, and their flagship character (A person with great powers and abilities) Superman.
Marston was the creator of the systolic blood-pressure test, which led to the creation of the polygraph ((A polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying) lie detector).
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 Reason Magazine - William Marston’s Secret Identity
Marston was a Harvard-trained psychologist who had a law degree to go along with his Ph.D. In the ’20s and ’30s, Marston was best known as a tireless advocate of the polygraph -- he developed an early lie detector machine -- and he lobbied unsuccessfully for its use in the courts.
Marston had two children by each woman and he and his wife formally adopted his children by Richard.
Marston made at least one other contribution to popular culture that, while perhaps less eye-catching than his full-figured, superpowered Amazon, is no less significant.
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 William Moulton Marston
William Moulton Marston (1893-1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, creator of the " Wonder Woman " character and comic-strip writer, William Moulton Marston was born in Cliftondale, Massachusetts May 9, 1893.
Inventor of the systolic blood-pressure test (the basis of the polygraph, or 'lie detector'), Marston was also a writer of essays in popular psychology.
In 1940 Marston had become an educational consultant for Detective Comics (now DC Comics), the publisher of the "Batman", and "Superman" comics series.
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 What is DISC? Who Created the DISC Model?
The DISC model is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston Ph.D. to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation.
Marston, the father of the DISC, was a graduate of Harvard University.
Marston’s original contributions continue to be enhanced by ongoing behavioral research and validation in more than 50 languages and by numerous publishers of the profile, creating numerous versions of the DISC of various quantity and validity.
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 William Moulton Marston -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893–May 2, 1947) was a psychologist, feminist theorist, creator of the " (A woman who can be a successful wife and have a professional career at the same time) Wonder Woman" character and (A magazine devoted to comic strips) comic book writer.
In an October 25, 1940 interview conducted by Olive and published in (Rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats) Family Circle, titled "Don't Laugh at the Comics", Marston described what he saw as the great educational potential of comic books.
After his death, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive's death in the late (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s; Elizabeth died in 1993, aged 100.
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 Nat' Academies Press, The Polygraph and Lie Detection (2003)
When Marston was introduced as an expert witness at trial, the presiding judge excluded the evidence on the grounds that the test had been administered in jail 10 days before Frye testified in court and that it was irrelevant to the veracity of his testimony.
While Marston’s (1938) account of his proffered testimony in the Frye case suggests that the circumstances of the case and the original ruling were somewhat different than what this opinion suggests, the Frye test standard stood as the dominant rule regarding the admissibility of scientific expert testimony for the next 70 years.
William Moulton Marston died in 1947, but Wonder Woman and the legend of his work at the National Research Council creating the polygraph live on.
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William Moulton Marston (1893 - 1947), received his Ph.D. from Harvard and spent most of his adult life as a teaching and consulting psychologist.
A prolific writer, Marston was a contributor to the American Journal of Psychology, The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopedia of Psychology, in addition to authoring and co-authoring five books.
Marston is best known for his success with the lie detector.
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 William Moulton Marston – DiSC Profiles – DiSC Personality Tests
William Moulton Marston was a giant who left large footprints and a rich legacy that continues to effect people now and in the future.
Marston's research quickly caught the eye of the federal government, including the FBI and the Department of War, which wanted to use his techniques to question prisoners during World War I. Marston was called in to consult on the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping case, but his contribution was rejected by the judge.
William's competing fascination with female submission and female strength led to schizophrenic episodes such as 1943's "Battle for Womanhood," where various women (Diana included) are bound, blindfolded, strip-searched, handcuffed, and caged or chained to a wall.
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 At DISC Profiles: William Moulton Marston DISC Model Theory Lie Detector Wonder Woman Dominance Influence Submission ...
In the early 20's Marston's work continued to be significant in the courts and legal system, however, it evolved in 1924 when he first studied the concepts of will and power and their effect on personality and human behavior.
Marston's was schooled in the Greek and Roman classics as a young man. He also was intimately and personally involved with earliest movements for women's rights to birth control, women's rights to vote, women's rights to work...
Marston was intimately acquainted with the movement to allow women to practice birth control and to vote.
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 At OnlineDisc.com: William Moulton Marston DISC Lie Detector Wonder Woman Dominance Influence Submission Compliance
William Moulton Marston used the lie detector and had several significant events with the lie detector, but it was 1938 before he wrote of it again extensively.
William Moulton Marston was a lawyer graduating from Harvard in 1918, and he changed the criminal justice system forever with a machine.
Marston was part of the first research group who tracked the chemical messengers in the brain and proposed that it was an imbalance of electrical impulses and chemicals.
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 Ancestry of William Moulton of Parsonsfield, Maine
His grandson John Moulton was to have the above land if he released all rights which he had to five and a half acres by right of his father Robert Moulton, if he did not the land was to go to John the elder's son Joseph.
William and Mary Estow emigrated to New England with their daughters Sarah and Mary (John the elder's "apprentice").
William was given a land grant in 1645 in Hampton and was made a freeman 3 Oct. 1654.
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 Guillermo Moulton Marston   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Guillermo Moulton Marston (de mayo el 9, 1893-May 2, 1947) era psicólogo, un teórico feminista, un creador "del carácter de la mujer de la maravilla" y escritor cómico del libro.
Marston tenía dos niños con cada mujer, y los cuatro niños y tres padres vivieron juntos feliz.
Durante su vida Marston había escrito muchos artículos y libros en asuntos psicologicos, pero los sus seis años pasados de la escritura fueron dedicados a su creación de los tebeos.
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 Reason magazine -- May 2001, William Marston’s Secret Identity by Nick Gillespie
Marston was a Harvard-trained psychologist who had a law degree to go along with his Ph.D. In the ’20s and ’30s, Marston was best known as a tireless advocate of the polygraph -- he developed an early lie detector machine -- and he lobbied unsuccessfully for its use in the courts.
For Marston, the most "constructive" comics were those that laid the groundwork for what he insisted was the coming age of "American matriarchy" in which "women would take over the rule of the country, politically and economically."
Marston had two children by each woman and he and his wife formally adopted his children by Richard.
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 William Moulton Marston
His deep understanding of the interaction between individuals and their environment resulting in four well-known behavioral types (Dominance (D), Inducement (I), Submission (S), and Compliance (C)), defined a breakthrough model of human behavior that remains just as valid today as it was in 1928.
Like many psychologists of his time, Marston made a deliberate decision to focus only on psychological phenomena that were directly observable and measurable through objective means.
From his careful research, Marston theorized that the behavioral expression of emotions could be categorized into four primary types, stemming from the person's perceptions of self in relationship to his or her environment.
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 Justice Society Profile: Wonder Woman   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Of particular interest to Marston was the emotional responses of human beings and their relationship to human physiology.
Marston was also an early feminist who supported the cause of women throughout his career.
Mayer suspected "There was a certain symbolism that Marston engaged in, which was very simple and very broad." Mayer's suspicion that Dr. Marston was intentionally employing sexual symbolism in the comic strip may not have been without good reason.
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 Validity Study on Behavioral Assessments   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Marston’s publicly recognized contribution was his invention of the lie detector.
Marston believed that people tend to learn a self-concept, which is basically in accordance with one of four behavioral factors (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance—or DISC).
Using Marston’s theory, it is possible to apply the powers of scientific observation to behavior.
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The lie detector in the modern sense was first proposed in 1938 by William Moulton Marston, the inventor of the comic strip character "Wonder Woman", and the instrument he proposed was first constructed by a California police officer John Larson.
Marston maintained that there was a transitory elevation of the blood pressure on the part of a liar and that detection of this would give him away.
The modern polygraph is a development of this idea but, in addition to blood pressure, it records abdominal and chest movements due to breathing and the electrical resistance between two fingers in order to detect sweating of the palms.
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 The Wonder Woman Pages: Dr. William Moulton Marston
William Moulton Marston was an educational consultant in 1940 for Detective Comics, Inc.(now better known as DC Comics).
Marston saw that the DC line, seeing it filled with images of super men such as Green Lantern, Batman, and their flagship character, Superman.
Marston was the creator of the systolic blood-pressure test, which lead to the creation of the polygraph(lie detector).
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 DISC4Success: About DiSC Assessments, Profiles
Most of Dr. Marston's adult life was spent as a teaching and consulting psychologist.
A prolific writer, Dr. Marston was a contributor to the American Journal of Psychology, The Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Marston's most well-known contribution was his success in lie detection.
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 Movie Poop Shoot - COMICS 101
The October 25, 1940 article, “Don’t Laugh at the Comics,” written by Olive Richard, interviewed prominent psychologist William Moulton Marston, who suggested that the overwhelming dominance of male heroic figures in the wildly popular superhero comics needed to be balanced by a strong female hero.
When Mayer and Marston met to discuss first the advisory position, and then Marston creating a new female hero character for All-American, Mayer might not have known just how dedicated Marston was to the concept of the equality and supremacy of women.
Marston’s forward thinking extended into his personal life as well, as he lived in a committed polygamous relationship with two women, one his wife Elizabeth Holloway and the other a former student: none other than the aforementioned Olive Richard, author of the FAMILY CIRCLE piece that first got M.C. Gaines’ attention.
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 William MARSTON & Rebecca UNKNOWN
Captain William Marston, the immigrant, was of an ancient Engish
The Robert Marston place was sold to William Moulton by Simon Marston.
Captain William Marston born in Marston Moor, England, in 1592.
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William Moulton Marston (1893 - 1947), received his Ph.D. from Harvard and spent most of his adult life as a teaching and consulting psychologist.
A prolific writer, Marston was a contributor to the American Journal of Psychology, The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopedia of Psychology, in addition to authoring and co-authoring five books.
Marston is best known for his success with the lie detector.
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