Knock, knock. "Who's there?" An imposter!
In a study published in September, Rory O’Brien McElwee and Tricia Yurak of Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., had 253 students take an exhaustive battery of tests assessing how people present themselves in public. They found that psychologically speaking, impostorism looked a lot more like a self-presentation strategy than a personality trait.Are you an imposter if you present yourself as an imposter? Surely the psychology of true "imposterism" has much more to do with hidden secrets than it does with self-presentation, or my name isn't Sigmund Freud.
In an interview, Dr. McElwee said that as a social strategy, projecting oneself as an impostor can lower expectations for a performance and take pressure off a person — as long as the self-deprecation doesn’t go too far. - New York Times, February 5, 2008
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