Imposter Syndrome & Individual Competence - Jessica Rose

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Imposter Syndrome
& Individual
CompetenceBy Jess Rose

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Zone of Proximal Development
Too
Difficult
Too
Easy
zpd

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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
INADEQUAC
Y
AVOIDING
DISPLAY
S of
target
Use of
CHARM,
SOCIAL
MITIGATION
INCREASE
D Diligence
&
dedicati
on

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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:
feelings
of
INADEQUAC
Y
AVOIDING
DISPLAY
S of
target
Use of
CHARM,
SOCIAL
MITIGATION
INCREASE
D 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.