I’d never heard of that, thanks for the pointer. Something seems suspicious about it being found most “among graduate students”. Aren’t grad students a major source for psych experiment data due to availability?
Anecdotally, the high prevalence among grad students strikes me as quite correct; about half of the grad students I know have these worries, while my friends outside of academia seem to feel good about their performance when praised and reserve their self-doubt for actual occasions of criticism.
In my own case, I started getting those feelings in college, almost exactly when (for the first time I know of) I met someone indisputably smarter than me.
Aren’t grad students a major source for psych experiment data due to availability?
I think it’s more undergrads, actually, who are a) more numerous and b) very likely to take an intro psych course no matter their major, in which courses it’s possible to issue a requirement: either participation in a psych study, or a long paper nobody wants to write. (They can’t outright require study participation, but they can make the alternative very unappealing.)
I’d never heard of that, thanks for the pointer. Something seems suspicious about it being found most “among graduate students”. Aren’t grad students a major source for psych experiment data due to availability?
Anecdotally, the high prevalence among grad students strikes me as quite correct; about half of the grad students I know have these worries, while my friends outside of academia seem to feel good about their performance when praised and reserve their self-doubt for actual occasions of criticism.
In my own case, I started getting those feelings in college, almost exactly when (for the first time I know of) I met someone indisputably smarter than me.
Yes, seconded. Especially among women.
I think it’s more undergrads, actually, who are a) more numerous and b) very likely to take an intro psych course no matter their major, in which courses it’s possible to issue a requirement: either participation in a psych study, or a long paper nobody wants to write. (They can’t outright require study participation, but they can make the alternative very unappealing.)