Law Students

Can you be likable and still get ahead?

By lawblogger

I read Are You Living Your Life Like You're Planning to Fail on Ms. JD the other day and thought of it immediately when I read this article in the New York Times on the imposter phenomenon. The imposter phenomenon was coined by two therapists in the 1970s "to describe the internal experience of a group of high-achieving women who had a secret sense they were not as capable as others thought." Now, researchers have found that men and women of all ages experience the imposter phenomenon, which basically means you think you've achieved your success because of being lucky or able to fake competence you don't really have. Two Purdue psychologists, however, recently surveyed 135 college students and discovered that while both genders suffered from the imposter phenomenon, the effects on men and women who scored highly on the imposter scale were quite different.

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).