Taking pictures to remember may help you forget 用照相紀念可能幫你忘記

Taking a picture to help you remember something might end up having the opposite effect, according to research published in the United States.

拍照幫助你記住某件事情，最後可能適得其反，根據美國發表的研究。

A study released this week 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.

本週公布的研究顯示，在參觀博物館時拍下展覽品照片的人，相較於僅用雙眼觀察者，比較不可能記得細節。

That is a lesson for a world growing accustomed to instant photo-sharing on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, said psychological scientist Linda Henkel of Fairfield University.

那對一個越來越習慣在臉書、推特和其他社群網站立即分享照片的世界是個課題，美國費菲爾大學心理學家韓克說。

"People so often whip out their cameras almost mindlessly to capture a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening right in front of them," said Henkel.

「人們這麼常掏出相機，幾乎是想也不想地捕捉某個瞬間，反而錯過就在面前發生的事情，」韓克說。

新聞辭典

end up：片語，落得…下場。例句：She’ll end up penniless if she carries on spending like that.（如果她繼續像這樣花錢，最後會身無分文。）

accustomed：形容詞，習慣的。例句：I’m not accustomed to being treated like this.（我不習慣被這樣對待。）

mindlessly：副詞，不用腦子的。例句：Some children started mindlessly hurling stones at passing vehicles.（有些小孩開始盲目地對路過的車子丟石頭。）