Rituals of Cognition: a procedure, formal or informal, for arriving at some belief—when that procedure becomes valued for its own sake rather than as an instrument in arriving at “correct” (i.e. winning) determinations.
Examples can include:
causal decision theory in the context of Newcomb’s problem
statistical tools such as p-values in the context of experimental science
majoritarianism in the context of arguments among would-be rationalists