Editing William Moulton Marston (section)

===Psychologist and inventor===
Marston was the creator of the [[Systole (medicine)|systolic]] [[blood pressure]] test, which became one component of the modern [[polygraph]] invented by [[John Augustus Larson]] in [[Berkeley, California]]. Marston's wife, [[Elizabeth Holloway Marston]], suggested a connection between emotion and blood pressure to William, observing that, "[w]hen she got mad or excited, her blood pressure seemed to climb".<ref>(Lamb, 2001)</ref>

Although Elizabeth is not listed as Marston's collaborator in his early work, Lamb, Matte (1996), and others refer directly and indirectly to Elizabeth's own work on her husband's research. She also appears in a picture taken in his laboratory in the 1920s (reproduced by Marston, 1938).<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10420&page=292|title=The Polygraph and Lie Detection|year=2003|doi=10.17226/10420|isbn=978-0-309-26392-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Mark H.|title=The Polygraph and Lie Detection|publisher=National Academies Press|year=2003|page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=USg-j9esZagC&pg=PA29|isbn=0-309-08436-9}}</ref>

Marston set out to commercialize Larson's invention of the polygraph, when he subsequently embarked on a career in entertainment and comic book writing and appearing as a salesman in ads for Gillette Razors, using a polygraph motif. From his psychological work, Marston became convinced that women were more honest than men in certain situations and could work faster and more accurately. During his lifetime, Marston championed what he saw as the latent abilities and causes of the women of his day.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hanley |first=Tim |date=2014 |title=Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K90EAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 |location=Chicago, Illinois |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |pages=11–12 |isbn=978-1-61374-909-8}}</ref>

Marston was also a writer of essays in popular psychology. In 1928, he published a book entitled ''Emotions of Normal People,'' a defense of many sexual taboos, using much of Byrne's original research she had done for her doctorate. He dedicated the work to her, Holloway, his mother, his aunt, and Huntley. It received almost no attention from the rest of the academic community other than a review, written by Byrne herself, under her alternate name Olive Richard in ''[[The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology]]''.{{sfn|Lepore|2014|pp=126–127}}<ref>https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fh0065724 {{closed access}}</ref>

''Emotions of Normal People'' also elaborated on the [[DISC assessment|DISC Theory]]. Marston viewed people behaving along two axis, with their attention being either passive or active, depending on the individual's perception of his or her environment as either favorable or antagonistic. By placing the axis at right angles, four quadrants form, with each describing a behavioral pattern:<ref>{{cite book |last=Bradberry |first=Travis |date=2007 |title=The Personality Code: Unlock the Secret to Understanding Your Boss, Your Colleagues, Your Friends...and Yourself! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXrhlPWzdFAC&pg=PA149 |location=New York |publisher=[[G. P. Putnam's Sons]] |page=149 |isbn=978-0-399-15411-9}}</ref>
* Dominance produces activity in an antagonistic environment
* Inducement produces activity in a favorable environment
* Submission produces passivity in a favorable environment
* Compliance produces passivity in an antagonistic environment.

Marston posited that there is a masculine notion of freedom that is inherently anarchic and violent and an opposing feminine notion based on "Love Allure" that leads to an ideal state of submission to loving authority.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/ironies-wonder-woman |title=The Ironies of Wonder Woman |last=Coleman |first=John A. |date=February 28, 2014 |website=[[America (magazine)|America]] |access-date=February 28, 2014}}</ref>