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Imposter Syndrome & Individual CompetenceBy Jess Rose

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Zone of Proximal Development

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Cognitive Bias:a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. Individuals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input.

-Wikipedia

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Your brain using bad data to build worse conclusions that it becomes really attached to.

Cognitive Bias:

-My Husband

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What does impostor syndrome do?

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Imes and Clance, 1978:

feelings of

INADEQUACY

AVOIDINGDISPLAY

S of target skills

Use of CHARM,

SOCIAL MITIGATION

INCREASED Diligence

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Who is impacted by impostor syndrome?

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Imes and Clance 1978:

High achieving women often impacted by syndrome.

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Vera, Vasquez, Corona 2006:

High achieving women of colour often impacted by syndrome.

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Tl;dr of loads of papers:

High achieving visible minorities, especially women are often impacted.

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Internalizing Discrimination

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What is technology doing to impostor syndrome?

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Making it better for others

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DO NOT: Tell someone they have imposter syndrome

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DO: Give positive meaningful and actionable feedback

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DO: Talk about your own feelings and fears when you feel comfortable doing so

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Fixing it yourself

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Imes and Clance, 1978:

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AVOIDINGDISPLAY

S of target skills

Use of CHARM,

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INCREASED Diligence

& dedicati

on

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Unskilled

aren’t aware of their own LACK OF

SKILL

are unable to ASSESS &

VALUE others’ skills

can only move past their

LACK OF SKILLS when they

RECOGNIZE their lack of skill

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Thank you.