How does the cognitive architecture of impostor syndrome affect an individual's self-assessment?
The cognitive architecture of impostor syndrome creates a self-sealing belief structure where successes are categorized as external and do not update the self-model. This leads to an ongoing anticipation of failure, as individuals believe that their inadequacies will eventually be exposed, thus maintaining their distorted self-perception.
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