Taking Photos Won’t Take You Out of the Moment - “actually causes you to encode visual content and remember it”

Taking Photos Won’t Take You Out of the Moment, Study Suggests - The New York Times
nytimes 2017/08/18  |  a study in this month’s issue of Psychological Science.

Researchers found that taking photos during an experience helped people remember visuals more accurately, even when they didn’t revisit their photos.
The results follow research published last year by the same group, wh found that photo-taking made people more engaged with experiences, leading them to enjoy positive events more / y! th is why I

In related experiments, participants toured virtual art galleries with the option to take onscreen snapshots. The researchers found similar gains in memory when participants were asked to take screenshots compared with conjuring mental images.

The findings suggest that the process of looking around for what to photograph “actually causes you to encode visual content and remember it”  /y!

By some estimates, people around the world will take 1.3 trillion photos this year. “It’s a thing that’s taking over our lives,” said Alix Barasch, one of the authors and an assistant professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, “yet nobody has really studied the psychological effects of taking pictures.”