Feeling versus acting like an impostor: Real feelings of fraudulence or self-presentation?

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-220

  McElwee, Rory O'Brien ^a,b   Yurak, Tricia J ^a  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

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