From the blog: Put people under the stress of ambiguity and you will evoke their most primitive anxieties – and their most basic psychological defences.
This causes huge problems for groups of pension scheme trustees trying to make investment decisions, an area fraught with uncertainty. But there are solutions.
Wilfred Bion, the pioneer of research into group dynamics, said a group is “compelled, whenever the pressure of anxiety becomes too great, to take defensive action”.