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A recent study showed that people who took photographs of items during a museum tour were less likely to remember details than those who merely looked at the objects. “When you press click on that button for the camera, you’re sending a signal to your brain saying, ‘I’ve just outsourced this, the camera is going to remember this for me,” said Linda Henkel, a psychological scientist at Fairfield University, Connecticut. “The photos are trophies. You want to show people where you were rather than saying, ‘Hey, this is important, I want to remember this.” Henkel called this the ‘photo-taking impairment effect’.

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