Are you an Instagram addict? Then you're probably HAPPIER: Taking photos of your experiences makes you enjoy them more
These days it seems people can't complete simple tasks, like having a meal, without getting their phones out to Instagram it.
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It would be easy to think our obsession with documenting everything takes away from the enjoyment of the experience itself, but a new study says otherwise.
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Researchers have found people taking photos of events actually enjoy them more.
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The study was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The participants who took photos reported being more engaged in the activity.
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'One critical factor that has been shown to affect enjoyment is the extent to which people are engaged with the experience,' the authors wrote.
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Photo taking helps this because it naturally draws people more into the experience, they said.
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The researchers asked over 2,000 people to take part in nine different experiments. In each experiment, individuals were asked to participate in an activity C which ranged from going on a bus tour to eating in a food court.
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They were asked to either take photos or not, and completed a survey to show how much fun they had during the task.
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In almost every case, people who took photographs reported higher levels of enjoyment.
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