"Avid photographers celebrate the viewfinder as a means of helping us see the world anew.
But psychology research has shown that under some conditions taking a photo of something actually makes it harder to remember.
One possible reason is that we give less attention to an experience when we know that it will be safely stored in a photograph.
But in a new paper in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Julia Soares and Benjamin Storm from the University of California show that the photo-taker’s memory will suffer whether they expect to keep the photo or not..........." The British Psychological Society
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