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Lives Through Film: 49 UP and the UP Series as a Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Change

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In this chapter we examine the UP series of documentary films, a longitudinal examination of the lives of 14 British individuals. The first film, 7 UP!, depicted participants at age 7 and was produced in 1963. The most recent, 49 UP, was produced in 2005. We consider the value and the limitations of the series as a study of personality development and describe the trajectories of the lives of three participants in some detail.

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    The films are available on DVD as a boxed set from http://firstrunfeatures.com/UPseries.html.

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  1. WB 218, Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, FL, 33458, USA

    Kevin Lanning

  2. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 33458, USA

    Samantha A. Montgomery B.A., Justin Bright B.A., Lenore Broming B.A., Misty Hudelson B.A., Rachel E. Pauletti B.A., Garreth Rosenzweig B.A. & Rachel Starkings B.A.

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Lanning, K. et al. (2010). Lives Through Film: 49 UP and the UP Series as a Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Change. In: Gregerson, M. (eds) The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1114-8_5

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