Diana demonstrated a remarkable level of skill with the lasso, performing such feats as twirling it to create air currents (upon which she could float) and spinning it to emit certain frequencies that disrupted spells. ĭiana coated it in special Amazon chemicals that allowed it to transform her civilian clothes into Wonder Woman's garb.
In addition to being unbreakable, the lasso was also infinitely elastic. This effect could be used on larger groups of people, although this reduced its efficiency. The powers forced whoever was bound within it to obey the commands of whomever held the other end. The lasso was formed from Aphrodite's girdle, which made it indestructible and its magical properties were granted by the Goddess herself. And because Wonder Woman used it to extract confessions and compel obedience, the golden lasso was of course nothing less than a lie detector Like the lie detector upon which it was modelled, Wonder Woman's Golden Lasso produced truth-and by implication justice and freedom too-through coercion. In a 1997 academic article, psychologist Geoffry Bunn incorrectly reinforces a correlation between the lasso and the systolic blood-pressure test, stating:Īnyone caught in the lasso found it impossible to lie. The idea behind feminine allure was that submission to a pleasant controller (instead of a harsh one) was more pleasant and therefore made it more likely that people would submit.
So Marston created the Magic Lasso as an allegory for feminine charm and the compliant effect it has on people. Wonder Woman's Magic Lasso or Golden Lasso was the direct result of their research into emotions and was more about submission than truth. Marston's wife, psychologist and lawyer Elizabeth Holloway Marston, one of his inspirations for the Wonder Woman character, also played a key role in his lie detector research.īut the lie detector had nothing to do with Marston's creation of the Magic Lasso. Blood pressure was one of several elements measured in the polygraph tests that were being perfected since as far back as Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, in 1895. William Moulton Marston created Wonder Woman but he also worked, in the period before, during and after World War I, on understanding and perfecting the systolic blood-pressure test while working on his Ph.D.
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