Karpinski and a colleague questioned 219 us undergraduates and graduates about their study practices and general Internet use, as well as their specific use of Facebook.
"It is the equivalent of the difference between getting an a and a b," said Karpinski, who will present her findings this week to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
"What was even more peculiar was that the plants' responses changed depending on the color of the light that was being shone on them, " explained professor Stanislaw Karpinski, who led this research.