A recent article in Esquire by John H. Richardson explored the way various climate scientists (including myself) grapple with the complicated and indeed sometimes emotional task of communicating knowledge, uncertainty, and risk in a way that best informs the contentious debate over human-caused climate change and what to do about it.
The father's main song, "To Break in a Glove" was the one weaker spot last spring; it fit the show, but wasn't quite up to the emotional task of bringing us back into the emotional life of the show after intermission.
But other consultants said they are still receiving plenty of work from companies in crisis, particularly those facing the grim and emotional tasks of laying off employees or merging with other companies.
Do you think, had I a choice, I would have left?" Down the coast in Pozzallo, another major processing point for incoming migrants, Mayor Luigi Ammatuna and his chief of staff, Virginia Giugno, now spend much of their time dealing with the bureaucratic and emotional tasks of migration.
Such is the case with Cris, Allen's niece, who also lost her own mother exactly one month before losing her uncle, and now faces the almost insurmountable financial and emotional tasks of taking care of both tragedies.
"It's a huge, huge emotional task for all of these 6,000 families who have requested to leave the very place that … [some have] lived in for 37 years.
Within each mask, we were interested in identifying regions demonstrating general sensitivity to conflict (e.g., across both the emotional and non-emotional tasks) and then examining whether brain activity within these conflict-associated regions differed as a function of emotional task content.
To extend studies on visual emotional processing, we included an auditory emotional task: judging the emotional tone of spoken language i.e. prosody.
Finally, we tested whether the emotional task was associated with the activation of potentially affectively-specialized regions, such as the rostral ACC/ventromedial PFC and amygdala, that might be selectively recruited to detect emotional conflict.
By combining both measures and differentially manipulating cognitive and emotional aspects, more can be learned about the relation between the brain response and the bodily response and the differential impact of cognitive and emotional task aspects on these measures.
It's a difficult and emotional task.
