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This Common Phone Habit May Be Hurting Your Brain, Study Finds

Across seven experiments, people who took screenshots consistently remembered less than those who simply looked at the same information.

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Remember that screenshot you took to keep track of vital information while filling out a form, or to save a recipe for later? You don’t? That’s probably because, according to research published in Memory & Cognition by researchers from Binghamton University’s psychology department, screenshotting might be making you more forgetful.

The study, led by psychology doctoral candidate Sophia Fabrizio and co-authored by Rebecca Lurie and Deanne Westerman, put 892 participants through seven experiments. The idea was to........

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