Social performance of rationality

The social performance of rationality is any engagement with rationality in a social setting, such as performing the calculation or instruction of math in a classroom or on a date, either for educational purposes or merely that of signaling virtue, such as "see how smart I am". Social performance of rationality thus overlaps with the popularisation of science and the methods of rationality, as well as virtue signaling. Signaling virtue is a social necessity and not in it self bad, since any signaling of capacity, such as a necessary talent for engineering or wordsmithing or painting, is needed for goal driven construction such as which is required for civilization --- the same can obviously be said for the social performance of rationality, since hardly anything civilized would happen without it.
The desire for impactful social performance often leads to over-motivated reasoning and other features of pseudo-rationalism.
This is the thing about pseudorationalism. Whenever you try to get to 
the bottom of something, you always spend more time defending your 
pseudorationalism than finding out what really matters. --- Vanatta 12Where this gets complex is when you desire the successful social performance of rationality as a goal that holds up after reflection. 
Some people may value this to a level that seems excessive to most people and so may not be acting irrationally. More generally, it seems 
that every rationalist should value successfully performing rationality 
to some degree, even if only instrumentally. These considerations 
complicate discussions of what is or is not pseudo-rational, but do not 
invalidate the general concept as most often they are not in line with 
someone's considered values. Further, this concept has utility as 
identifying a pattern of behaviour that we might want to discourage as a
 community. [Leong 18]
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