Imposter syndrome is something that made its way into our everyday vernacular pretty recently Though it was coined as a term back in 1978 by Pauline Clance and Dr Suzanne Imes when they published The Impostor Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention, we only really became aware of it in the last […]
1 year ago
New research reveals a “silver lining” to the unpleasant condition. Most of us will deal with imposter syndrome at some point in our life. Whether it’s starting a new job or your first week at college, we’ve all felt that feeling of not being good enough at least once. Imposter syndrome is defined as a […]
4 years ago
“Women and underrepresented groups are more likely to be questioned regularly.” Imposter syndrome doesn’t just happen in the workplace – it happens outside of it too. The phenomenon, which is likely to affect the vast majority of women at least once in their lives, involves feelings of doubt about a person’s own abilities, often based […]
6 years ago
“You’re almost always watching your back thinking this was all a mistake.” Lately, people have been calling Aoife O’Brien ‘The Imposter Lady.’ Not because she’s pretending to be somebody else, or because she’s some sort of fraud – but because she’s been generating a lot of chat about the potentially debilitating and incredibly common phenomenon, […]
6 years ago