The notion that lying produces observable physical side effects has stuck with us, and one man thought he’d cracked the science of lie detection ... pioneered by William Marston, a lawyer ...

William Marston falsely claimed to have invented the lie detector test. The truth about his life was a whole lot wilder than that—and led to the invention of the most famous female comic book ...

Details the unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941. Marston was in a ...

Ms. magazine Marston (far right) questions a female subject taking a lie detector test, while Olive Byrne (far left) records the answers. Smithsonian Libraries Marston insisted that Wonder Woman ...

The test was designed by American psychologist William Moulton Marston ... credited with inventing an early version of the lie detector. Marston eventually concluded that the human behavior ...