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by devnull3 1693 days ago
Imposter Syndrome: Not an emotion per se.
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It’s a belief. That everyone else is smarter than you.

Opposite of dunning-kruger, where you think you’re smarter than everyone else.

Not an opposite. Dunning-Kruger works both ways:

> The Dunning–Kruger effect is a hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task overestimate their own ability, and that people with high ability at a task underestimate their own ability.

(From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect, emphasis mine)