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The lexical hypothesis of personality was founded by whom?

  • Sigmund Freud

  • Isaac Newton

  • Stephen Hawking

  • Francis Galton

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Francis Galton is credited with being the founder of the lexical hypothesis of personality. He proposed that there are a finite number of personality traits that can be described using words, and that these traits can be used to describe individuals. Galton's work has been influential in the development of personality psychology, and his ideas continue to be studied and debated today.
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