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What Smartphone Photography is Doing to Our Reminiscences
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Sharing photos could subtly change what - and how - we remember. Although they could appear crystal clear in our minds, our memories are not a carbon copy of the occasions we witnessed. Every time we recall a memory, we could accidentally alter it or diminish its accuracy. Even trivial recollections are simply corrupted with mere suggestions. The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus as soon as discovered that when individuals are instructed cars "collided" as an alternative of "hit," they recalled a automotive accident as being more severe than it was. Most frustrating of all: We alter these particulars and reconstruct actuality without being aware we’re doing it. And the seams of our edited reminiscences are silently sealed