Taking pictures of your happiest moments could prevent you from remembering them, a new study find, Newsmax Health reports.

"People so often whip out their cameras almost mindlessly to capture a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening right in front of them," says researcher Linda Henkel of Fairfeld University in the US.

In the study, Henkel and her team found that people had worse memory for objects, and for specific object details, when they took photos of them. Findings were recently published online in the journal Psychological Science.

To conduct her research, Henkel recruited 28 subjects for a tour of the university's Bellarmine Museum of Art. Subjects paused in front of 30 objects, with subjects randomly assigned to observe 15 artifacts and photograph the other 15. The next day, the research team issued memory tests about the tour, with subjects asked to jot down the names of the objects they saw and respond to questions about details.

Findings showed that subjects had trouble remembering the objects they photographed.

"When people rely on technology to remember for them -- counting on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves -- it can have a negative impact on how well they remember their experiences," said Henkel.