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If attempting to avoid the question will also elicit a negative response, and the person really only wants to optimize their social standing, then they would be better off simply providing an answer calibrated to please whoever they most desired to avoid disapproval from. Mere signaling fails to account for many of these cases.
Giving either response can be harmful if you are trying to avoid the disapproval of someone who fails at conservation of expected evidence. (This failure could happen even to us rationalists who are aware of the possibility, by simply not thinking about how we would interpret the alternative response we did not observe, especially if our interpretation is influenced by a clever arguer who wants us to disapprove.)