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GLOSSARY

Cognitive Dissonance:

Ideology: “… a specific vision of the world and… a false or distorted way of thinking” (Balbi, 2023, p. 3).

Mythology: “It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back” (Campbell, 2008, p. 7).