Is Impostor Syndrome just for women? There are some men I can think of... | Catherine Bennett

It ’s now become a public ritual for a successful woman to out herself for having self-doubtsAt around the same, distant time that I was meant to be studying comparative – animal – psychology, a couple of US psychologists, Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes, came up with something never yet observed in a herring gull, but frequently – they concluded – afflicting successful women: the Impostor Phenomenon.It designated,they wrote, “an internal experience of intellectual phoniness, which appears to be particularly prevalent and intense among a select sample of high-achieving women”.Continue reading...
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