ASSESSING THE AFFECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23175, 26 January 1939, Page 21

ASSESSING THE AFFECTIONS

“ LOVE DETECTOR " INVENTION WOMEN RESPOND MORE READILY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 24. Dr William Marston, the lie detector inventor, to-day demonstrated before the American Institute a love detector, his latest invention, which is on the market at 500dol. It is guaranteed to show whether a husband is in love with his wife, and if not, why not; whether the subject married for lovo or money; and whether love, if any, is based on higher emotion or plain sex.

An instrument called the pneumograph is clamped round the chest, and another called the sphygmomanometer is clamped round the right leg. The instruments record changes in blood pressure and breathing. Dr Marston has a series of questions, the reactions to which provide evidence for his conclusions. He explained that as women were less inhibited and more emotional than men the machine works better on them. It is so delicate that when tried on Douglas Corrigan, the aviator, he nearly broke the instruments. “My machine will furnish a scientific test for marital relations. It ought to lower the divorce rate, and, tried before marriage, will prevent mistakes.”