Professor Lyn van Swol

I received my Ph.D. in social psychology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and until recently I taught in the Department of Communication at Northwestern. My research interests include the exchange of information in groups, minority influence in a group discussion, how nonverbal mimicry affects social influence, and factors affecting the acceptance of advice.
My current projects include: how extreme members differ in the amount of information they discuss in groups; how type of information people in the minority opinion discuss affects their persuasiveness in the group, processes involved in group memory of information during a group discussion, how designating people as advisors in a group discussion leads to more acceptance of their unique information, and detection of deception from people offering advice.