Set is also how the discoveries of the past century in the field of behavioral science are unknown to psychologists, consultants and therapists. Automatic responses are regressed to more familiar behavior during stress. Automatic responses are regressed to more stressful behavior during stress. Corporate culture and group climate can be used by skillful behavioral scientists to manage and control the behavior of a staff or organizational unit. Membership in a group produces cognitive rigidity, producing conformity to that group.
Stress greatly increases that rigidity, often producing group tracking.
Information processing in the human brain is carried out in a dual or bimodal fashion. The automatic function is a product of the rehearsal by the aware function of innovative behavior. The aware function is greatly capacity limited, while the automatic function manages easily large masses of processing automatically, and often without the subject's awareness that anything at all has been done. Psychological research often produces stress. The stress causes cognitive rigidity which then restricts the study to behavior under those particular circumstances.