Also “I believe it’s good to want to do X”. Like belief in belief where believing it’s good to believe something makes people think they believe it, I suspect that people confuse their really wanting to do something and their belief that it is good to really want to do said thing. You may have meant this too, but I think it’s different from just signaling. Is there a term for internal signaling?
I did mean that too, but you’re right that using the term without qualification the way I did is unnecessarily ambiguous. I don’t know of any concise unambiguous term for it; perhaps we should coin one.
Also “I believe it’s good to want to do X”. Like belief in belief where believing it’s good to believe something makes people think they believe it, I suspect that people confuse their really wanting to do something and their belief that it is good to really want to do said thing. You may have meant this too, but I think it’s different from just signaling. Is there a term for internal signaling?
I did mean that too, but you’re right that using the term without qualification the way I did is unnecessarily ambiguous. I don’t know of any concise unambiguous term for it; perhaps we should coin one.