I think it might tend to alienate co-workers.
According to lazarus, the cause of the hassles is <span>Unmet expectations
Lazarus finds that people who are failed in fulfilling a certain goals or expectation will trigger an anger response.
This anger response will continue to develop until it create a certain stress level that cause the masses.</span>
Answer:
newly created energy that increased the total energy (thermal energy)
The emphasis in the question is on the "initial phase" of a research - which means that you don't yet have the results, and most likely you haven't even started testing yet- so it can't serve to present c. the conclusions you have reached, since you don't have conclusions yet