Impostor syndrome—that feeling that you’re not as smart as others believe you are–may be getting a bad rap. First identified by psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Clance in 1971 as the ...

You're a fake—a fraud. You don't know what you're doing at work and people will find out. If this sounds like your internal monologue, you may have imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is a condition ...

Popular misconceptions about “impostor syndrome” have spawned four myths that need debunking for managers to effectively understand and address its effects in the workplace, MIT Sloan School of ...

Have you ever felt fearful about making a mistake or anxious about being seen as incompetent in your next presentation? If you are constantly feeling this way, and you are not able to enjoy your wins, ...

Working remotely can come with perks, such as increased flexibility and comfort. However, there are some drawbacks to remote work. For instance, some research suggests that working from home can ...

I get asked about impostor syndrome a lot—by colleagues, by mentees, by my closest friends. And I get where they’re coming from. I’ve taken some big swings in my career, from running for office to ...

In 1978, two psychologists defined something called “impostor phenomenon” as an experience of feeling like an intellectual phony, in a paper published in the journal Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, ...

A new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology identifies some key personality characteristics that are associated with Impostor Syndrome, or the tendency to feel like you are not as good in ...

I’ll never forget the moment a newly minted senior executive, a man I’d watched steer his company through a turbulent transition, confessed his secret to me over a coffee. “Every quarter, when we ...