Assertion: people | /r/CapableOf | become addicted
Facets:
value: to pressing levers
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The Daily Telegraph quoted Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and the author of The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains, as saying that email exploits a basic human instinct to search for new information, causing people to become addicted to "mindlessly pressing levers in the hope of receiving a pellet of social or intellectual nourishment".