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Who was the founder of the field of differential psychology?

Who was the founder of the field of differential psychology? Correct Answer Galton

Galton was the founder of the field of Differential Psychology, which concerns itself with psychological differences between people, rather than on common traits.

Key Points

  • His influential study Hereditary Genius (1869) was the first systematic attempt to investigate the effect of heredity on intellectual abilities, and was notable for its use of the bell-shaped Normal Distribution, then called the "Law of Errors", to describe differences in intellectual ability.
  • Later Galton went on to suggest the use of twin studies to disentangle nature from nurture, by comparing identical twins to fraternal twins.
  • His psychological studies also embraced mental differences in visualization, and he was the first to identify and study "number forms", now called "synesthesia". 

Hence, we can conclude that Galton was the founder of the field of Differential Psychology.

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