Discrete choice-based valuation tasks are increasingly used, both within and outwith a capability approach, because ordinal tasks make weaker assumptions about human decision-making processes than cardinal tasks.
One of the cardinal tasks employed to demonstrate how changes in internal states modify the values of potential appetitive outcomes is one known as reinforcer devaluation (Holland & Straub, 1979).
He has also created a new body of eight cardinals whose task is to draw up a plan for the reform of the Roman Curia.
Not to mention the free-form press conferences, the reinvigorated synod of bishops, which is devolving power to the regions, and the council of cardinal advisers tasked with reforming the curia.
But Cardinal O'Connor's task force disbanded after the cardinal's death in 2000.
The Austrian had taken to task Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a former Vatican Secretary of State who remains a powerful figure in church circles.
The cardinal said the task of the next pope was not to make change in the church but to preserve the church's traditions.
He gave Cardinal Wolsey the task of prosecuting his case; Wolsey began by consulting university experts.
