Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre
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Job Title
Associate Professor, Head of the department
Department
Department of Coaching and Psychology
Room
F61
Phone number
+47 23 26 24 22
E-mail
nicolas.lemyre@nih.no

Responsible For
Head of administration/Associate professor

Subject area
Sport Psychology
Psychophysiology
Motivation
Burnout

Short biography

Nicolas Lemyre is originally from Montreal in Canada. His research work focuses on motivational processes in elite athletes and how they are differentially related to adaptive and maladaptive sport participation outcomes. Lemyre also holds a position within the sport psychology department at the Norwegian Olympic Training Centre, and he is currently working with the national teams in swimming and biathlon, while also heading a task force on the prevention of underperformance syndrome (UPS) in elite athletes. Dr. Lemyre is a past recipient of the Young Investigator’s Award of the European College of Sport Sciences (ECSS), as well as the Dissertation Award of the Association of Applied Sport

Psychology (AASP). He is currently associate editor of the International Journal of Sport Psychology.

 


Selected publications
Lemyre, P.-N., Hall, H.K. & Roberts, G.C. (2008). A Social Cognitive Approach to Burnout in Elite Athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 18, 221-234. 
 
Lemyre, P.-N., Roberts, G.C., &  Stray-Gundersen, J. (2007). Motivation, overtraining and burnout: Can Self-Determined Motivation Predict Overtraining and Burnout in Elite Athletes. European Journal of Sport Sciences, 7 , 2, 115-132.
 
Lemyre, P.-N., Treasure, D.C., & Roberts, G.C. (2006). Influence of Variability in Motivation and Affect on Elite Athlete Burnout. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28, 32-48.


Overview of publications in ForskDok