"We look at the strong, healthy character for some of the same reasons recent psychologists now charge psychology with a criticism her creator made long ago. Too much of psychology has focused on that which is abnormal without exploring that which is normal-hence Marston's classic book, Emotions of Normal People. Whereas other psychologists and other fictional characters might views humankind pessimistically, William Moulton Marston and Wonder Woman look for the best in us all and hope for our world. In the twenty-first century, a psychologist best known for studying the causes and consequences of learned helplessness promotes positive psychology on the belief that psychology has overemphasized the worst parts of human nature to the neglect of trying to understand the best."
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Travis Langley, "Introduction" in Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth, edited by Travis Langley and Mara Wood, Sterling, New York, (2017), p.36
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Wonder Woman is a fictional character and superhero, also known as Diana, princess of the Amazons, and as Diana Prince. Wonder Woman was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, debuting in All Star Comics #8.
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