If You Love Instagram, Here's Some Really Good News for You

​You know all those people who tell you to get off your phone and enjoy the "real world"? Screw 'em. A new study might just have proved them wrong.

Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology​, a group of three researchers conducted a series of nine experiments that measured how much people enjoyed themselves while doing various activities like going sightseeing and eating lunch with and without their phones. The researchers found that people enjoyed themselves way more when they were documenting their experiences.

One of the researchers told ​TIME​:

What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto. That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more.

So next time my mom tells me to stop Instagramming our family dinner, I'll tell her I'm doing it for my mental health.​