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Title	Point-and-Shoot Memories
Published in	Psychological Science, 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 %
France	72	16%
United States	56	13%
United Kingdom	26	6%
Canada	10	2%
Thailand	9	2%
Australia	8	2%
Japan	7	2%
Italy	6	1%
Netherlands	5	1%
Other	39	9%
Unknown	199	46%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	382	87%
Scientists	35	8%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	14	3%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	6	1%

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Country	Count	As %
United States	11	3%
United Kingdom	7	2%
Japan	4	1%
Germany	3	<1%
Sweden	2	<1%
Netherlands	1	<1%
South Africa	1	<1%
Turkey	1	<1%
Italy	1	<1%
Other	4	1%
Unknown	341	91%

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Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	76	20%
Student > Bachelor	68	18%
Student > Master	52	14%
Researcher	38	10%
Professor > Associate Professor	22	6%
Other	90	24%
Unknown	30	8%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Psychology	169	45%
Social Sciences	44	12%
Business, Management and Accounting	20	5%
Computer Science	16	4%
Arts and Humanities	15	4%
Other	63	17%
Unknown	49	13%

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