Have you ever been working on a project at work and doubted your ability to handle a task? That happens more often than you think, mostly because of imposter syndrome. Generally, imposter syndrome ...

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 ...

People who struggle with imposter syndrome believe that they are undeserving of their achievements and the high esteem in which they are, in fact, generally held. They feel that they aren’t as ...

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 ...

Do you constantly feel out of your depth? Do you fell that you’re a fake or a fraud to have got to where you are in life? If ...

Imposter syndrome (IS) involves unfounded feelings of self-doubt and incompetence. You may be able to reduce these feelings by talking with people close to you or seeking help from a mental health ...

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, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Studies estimate that up to 70% of people succumb to imposter syndrome at some point in ...

In 1978, psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes published a paper about highly successful and well-educated women who considered themselves “imposters.” The women whom the psychologists ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Sure, imposter syndrome affects everyone: At some point, an estimated 70% of people feel like imposters. But for women, the burden is ...