This sort of tasks relies mainly on the application of Project-Based Learning. In terms of emotions, it counts on the moment of PERSONALdiscovery in order to create positive emotions, and to raise students’ confidence and self-esteem.
Again, the functions of amygdala are taken under consideration, especially those related to emotional responses such as “fight or flight“ ones.
Tasks, related to research, interpretation and writing (essays or even articles) could be assigned mainly to students, majoring in humanities.
The moment of “discovery” here is linked to the fact that students have to do a research about authors and texts, unknown or not popular among the general public.