APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Does Editing Photos Edit Our Memories?

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Cross-Cutting Theme Poster - Technology and the Human Experience: Shaping Thoughts, Feelings, Development, and Interactions

  • Anna Milliken
    Fairfield University
  • Linda Henkel
    Fairfield University

Abstract

People remembered less content of their photos after edited the photo by applying a color-change filter than after cropping or just looking at the photo. Engaging in a relatively simple and uneventful act such as hitting a button and changing a photo’s color has consequences for what people remember.

Memory

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