Achievement Goals and Social Judgment: The Performance-Approach Goals Paradox

Although performance-approach goals are considered as "bad" goals by many researchers and teachers, succeeding at the university requires achieving more than one's counterparts by pursuing perfor- mance-approach goals. The present research examines the perceived social value of performance- approach goals at the university. Students were asked to judge a target who strongly/weakly endorsed performance-approach goals from their own perspective and that of their teachers. The results indicated that targets who strongly endorsed performance- Resume Bien que les buts de performance- approche soient consideres comme de «mauvais» buts par de nombreux chercheurs et enseignants, reussir a l'universite necessite de reussir mieux que les autres, en poursui- vant des buts de performance- approche. La recherche presentee ici examine la valeur sociale percue