# Professor Alixandra Barasch shares how looking at a video right after an event may alter children's memories

1 Faculty News April 25, 2019 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/well/family/video-altering-memory.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) -- "Looking at the video, she said, is 'definitely shifting the perspective to details about the way she looked, and also other details — maybe someone else’s reaction to her.' Not only could the change in perspective increase self-presentation anxiety but, 'according to research, it could also dampen emotional aspects of the experience,' [Dr. Barasch](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/alixandra-barasch) said."

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