A human-being meets a number of challenges dealing with complex situations (big tasks, long projects, accidents and catastrophes, external challenges), among which are the following:
- Complexity and reticularity (with necessity to consider many interconnected characteristics simultaneously)
- Dynamics (events keep developing and don’t wait)
- Lack of transparency (lots of information is inaccessible)
- Ignorance and false hypothesis (lack of information about nature of phenomenon)
According to a massive number of experiments, getting into such situations people start acting in a surprisingly similar way, like:
- Act without considering distant and side consequences
- Express self-assurance in the correctness of their actions
- Develop cynicism and deny moral standards
- Form abstract concepts and explain everything by one reason (“Everything depends on…”)
- Withdrawal into well-known activity or non-actual concerns