Francis Galton's pioneering research in individual differences, intelligence testing, and heredity that laid foundations for modern psychometrics and differential psychology.
Example: Early investigations of mental abilities using sensory discrimination tasks and family studies that influenced the development of intelligence testing and behavior genetics.
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