For seventy five years, Wonder Woman has served as an inspiration to people everywhere. Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth examines this powerful superhero—who was created by famous psychologist William Moulton Marston—through twenty chapters, including some very special interviews and the previously unpublished memoir of Elizabeth Holloway Marston. This collection analyzes:
● Marston's important role in the history of forensic psychology.
● How Diana's relationship with her mother and Amazonian sisters shapes her to become a leader and the heroine called Wonder Woman.
● The ways differences in culture and gender can contribute to alienation but also to personal empowerment.
● What roles emotion, strengths, virtues, and culture shock play in heroic behavior.
● And what it truly means to be a wonder.
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Travis Langley, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Henderson State University, the author of Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight, and editor of The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead and Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind. He regularly speaks on the subjects of heroism and popular culture at psychology conferences, fan conventions like San Diego Comic-Con, and universities throughout the world. Psychology Today carries his online column, “Beyond Heroes and Villains.”
Stephanie Bentley is a Los Angeles-based actress, singer, voice-over artist, and audiobook narrator. She regularly performs musical improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Hollywood and is also known for spoofing Twilight’s Bella Swan on the popular web series The BAMF Girls Club.
Todd McLaren, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice acting, where he has been heard on more than five thousand television and radio commercials, as well as television promos; narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E, Discovery, and the History Channel; and films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?