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Title	Point-and-Shoot Memories
Published in	Psychological Science (Sage Publications Inc.), December 2013
DOI	10.1177/0956797613504438
Pubmed ID	24311477
Authors	Linda A. Henkel
Abstract	Two studies examined whether photographing objects impacts what is remembered about them. Participants were led on a guided tour of an art museum and were directed to observe some objects and to photograph others. Results showed a photo-taking-impairment effect: If participants took a photo of each object as a whole, they remembered fewer objects and remembered fewer details about the objects and the objects' locations in the museum than if they instead only observed the objects and did not photograph them. However, when participants zoomed in to photograph a specific part of the object, their subsequent recognition and detail memory was not impaired, and, in fact, memory for features that were not zoomed in on was just as strong as memory for features that were zoomed in on. This finding highlights key differences between people's memory and the camera's "memory" and suggests that the additional attentional and cognitive processes engaged by this focused activity can eliminate the photo-taking-impairment effect.

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Country	Count	As %
United States	67	25%
United Kingdom	23	8%
Canada	13	5%
Thailand	10	4%
Japan	7	3%
Netherlands	6	2%
Australia	6	2%
France	6	2%
Italy	5	2%
Other	30	11%
Unknown	100	37%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	222	81%
Scientists	37	14%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	10	4%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	4	1%

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Country	Count	As %
United States	12	4%
United Kingdom	7	2%
Japan	4	1%
Germany	3	1%
Italy	2	<1%
Sweden	2	<1%
Austria	1	<1%
Netherlands	1	<1%
South Africa	1	<1%
Other	5	2%
Unknown	251	87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	65	22%
Student > Master	49	17%
Student > Bachelor	42	15%
Researcher	31	11%
Student > Doctoral Student	18	6%
Other	84	29%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Psychology	134	46%
Social Sciences	30	10%
Unspecified	28	10%
Business, Management and Accounting	17	6%
Computer Science	16	6%
Other	64	22%

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#3,198

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#11

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#47

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