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...though it is also worth noting that humans are evolved to be reasonable lie-detectors.
If your actual beliefs don't match your signalled beliefs, others may pick up on that, expose you as a liar, and punish you.
And ideally, you'd take that fact into account in forming your actual beliefs. I think it's pretty well-established here that having accurate beliefs shouldn't actually hurt you. It's not a good strategy to change your actual beliefs so that you can signal more effectively -- and it probably wouldn't work, anyway.
Hmm: Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge ...?
I haven't read that paper - but thanks for the link, I'll definitely do so - but it seems that that's a separate issue from choosing which beliefs to have based on what it will do for your social status. Still, I would argue that limiting knowledge is only preferable in select cases -- not a good general rule to abide by, partial knowledge of biases and such notwithstanding.