Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments: Our Sensations
Travis Langley and Mara Wood

Foreword: The Lasso and the Pendulum
Trina Robbins

Introduction: Truth
Travis Langley

PART I: CREATOR’S WORLD

1. Psychology on Trial: The Other Legacy of William Moulton Marston
Martin Lloyd

2. Dominance, Inducement, Submission, Compliance: Throwing the DISC in Fact and Fiction
Mara Wood

3. Marston, Wertham, and the Psychological Potential of Comic Books
Tim Hanley & Travis Langley
including Susan Eisenberg interview

4. The Tale of a Manx Cat (A Memoir from the Woman Who Gave Us Wonder)
Elizabeth Marston Holloway

Virtue File I. Justice
Travis Langley

PART II: OLD WORLD

5. A Perfect Place: Paradise Island and Utopian Communities
Mara Wood

6. Individuation and the Psychology of Rebirth
Chris Yogerst & Caitlin Yogerst

7. The Heroine and the Hero’s Journey
Laura Vecchiolla

Virtue File II. Wisdom and Knowledge
Mara Wood

PART III: WOMAN’S WORLD

8. A Mother’s Magic: Parenting Issues in Paradise
Mike Madrid & Rebecca M. Langley

9. Multiple Identities, Multiple Selves? Diana’s Actual, Ideal, and Ought Selves
Wind Goodfriend & Annamaria Formichella-Elsden

10. Growing a Goddess: Child Development and Wonder Woman
Mara Wood

11. Compassion is My Superpower
Jenna Busch & Janina Scarlet

12. Feminist Psychology: Teaching How to be Wonderful
Mara Wood

Virtue File III. Temperance
Travis Langley

PART IV. MAN’S WORLD

13. An Amazon in a World of Men
Lara Taylor Kester & Nina Taylor Kester

14. It’s a Man’s World: Wonder Woman and Attitudes Toward Gender Roles
Erin Currie

15. From Wing Chun to Wonder Woman: Empowerment through Martial Skill
E. Paul Zehr & Jeff Pisciotta

PART V. MODERN WORLD

16. Snapping Necks and Wearing Pants: Symbols, Schemas and Stress over Change
Travis Langley
including Dennis O’Neil interview

17. First of Her Name: Wonder Woman, the Role Model
Mara Wood

18. Balancing the Warrior and the Peace Ambassador: Self-Concepts and Moral Complexity
Eric D. Wesselmann, Emilio J. C. Lobato, & J. Scott Jordan

19. Coffee with Your Hero: The Benefits of Parasocial Relationships
Janina Scarlet & Alan Kistler

20. Truth in Treatment: Who Wields the Magic?
Travis Langley & Mara Wood

Virtue File V. Transcendence
Travis Langley

Final Word: Humanity
Mara Wood

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Special Contributors

Index