Academic Impostor Syndrome: Own Your Brilliance
Introduction and Definition Academic Impostor Syndrome (AIS) represents a pervasive psychological phenomenon where high-achieving individuals, particularly within educational and research settings, are unable to internalize their success. Despite possessing clear objective evidence of competence—such as high grades, publications, awards, or successful defenses—they persist in believing they are intellectual frauds who have deceived others into overestimating […]