# Professor Alixandra Barasch's research on photo taking and memory is featured

1 Faculty News August 13, 2017 ![WIRED logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032348.jpg?itok=Wszefc-R)>

Excerpt from [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/stay-in-the-moment-take-a-picture/) -- "'People feel very strongly that when they take photos it’s taking them out of the moment,' says [Alixandra Barasch](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alixandra-barasch), a researcher at NYU who studies the effects of taking photos. 'Yet after years of running studies, we kept on finding over and over again that there were all of these positive aspects of photo-taking, as well.'"

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