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Our obsession with recording every detail of our happiest moments could be damaging our ability to remember them, according to new research. Dr Linda Henkel, from Fairfield University, Connecticut, described this as the ‘photo-taking impairment effect’. She said, ‘People often whip out their cameras almost mindlessly to a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening in front of them. When people rely on technology to remember for them - on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves - it can have a negative on how well they remember their experiences.’ In Dr Henkel’s experiment, a group of university students were led on a tour of a museum and asked to either photograph or try to remember objects on display. The next day each student’s memory was tested. The results showed that people were less in recognizing the objects they had photographed with those they had only looked at.
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