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Women, early-career academics more likely to feel like ‘impostors’ in disciplines that prize brilliance, study finds

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The more an academic discipline is perceived to require raw talent or ‘brilliance’ for success, the more both women and early-career academics feel professionally inadequate — like ‘impostors’ — finds a new study of U.S. academics by a team of psychology researchers.

Source: ScienceDaily.com