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What Is Imposter Syndrome?

By Arlin Cuncic — 2021

Impostor Syndrome (IS) refers to an internal experience of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be.

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Yale’s Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students

The cognitive scientist Laurie Santos says “we’re fighting cultural forces that are telling us, ‘You’re not happy enough.’”

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David Marchese
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What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture

A grassroots civil-dialogue movement creates a new kind of safe space: one that invites students from across the political spectrum to discuss controversial issues, including policing, gender identity, and free speech itself.

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Jennifer Miller
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Have You Ever Felt Like an Outsider?

Being an outsider can cause culture shock. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

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Natalie Proulx
2019
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Are You Mentally Well Enough for College?

Last spring an 18-year-old college freshman who got straight A’s in high school—but was now failing several courses—came to my office on the campus where I work as a psychologist.

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Nicholas Joyce
2019
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5 Steps To Finding A Therapist As A College Student

For those who want to seek help and guidance, here are some actions you can take.

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Natalie Gabor
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5 Things College Students Should Include in a Plan for Their Wellness

Here are five essential things that any wellness plan for incoming college students should address.

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Sandra M. Chafouleas
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Imposter Syndrome, or Something Else? Historian Talks ‘Discriminatory Gaslighting’

For the longest time, Christy Pichichero says she thought she was plagued with imposter syndrome, you know, that feeling that you don’t belong, that you don’t quite deserve your success. But this past year, she took a step back and coined a whole new phrase for what she’s been experiencing.

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Lulu Garcia Navarro
2021
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Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students that They Do Not Belong

“Students from low-income backgrounds receive daily reminders—interpersonal and institutional, symbolic and structural—that they are the ones who do not belong.”

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Alex Jovel, Miranda Townes Hope, Thomas E. LaBarge, Albert Arriola, David Welch, Ruth A. Rouff, Ashish Ranpura
2019
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How Parents Can Ward Against “Imposter Syndrome”

Today in my interactions with college students and young scientists in training, I’m often struck by the limits that they are placing on their own potential by comparing their achievements to those of others.

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Tricia Serio
2016
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Beyond the Jokes: Imposter Syndrome in Students

Imposter syndrome, alongside alcoholism and chronic insomnia, is one of the experiences key to the morbid trinity of student life; the quirks forming the foundation of every post on every university confessions page.

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Sophie Kernachan
2020
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