Lyn M. Van Swol
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Environment and Resources
Active 2001–2024
About
Lyn M. Van Swol is an Associate Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on information sharing in groups, utilization of advice, persuasion, language use in groups, chatbot communication, and the role of strategic persuasive messages in environmental communication. She examines factors that increase acceptance of information during interactions, with particular interest in how group discussion can facilitate persuasion and encourage pro-environmental behavior through norm-setting. Her current projects include studying emotional contagion in online discussions, how strategic messages can promote advice utilization for environmental issues like PFAS, and how language influences emotions, conflict, and persuasion in group settings. Van Swol's work emphasizes understanding what influences the acceptance and effectiveness of communication in group and environmental contexts.
Research topics
- Psychology
- Social psychology
- Computer science
- Cognitive psychology
- Applied psychology
Frequent coauthors
- 19 shared
Zhenxing Gong
Liaocheng University
- 17 shared
Andrew Prahl
Nanyang Technological University
- 15 shared
Michael Braun
Rotkreuzklinikum München
- 15 shared
Brian A. Nosek
Center for Open Science
- 12 shared
Paul Hangsan Ahn
- 10 shared
Miranda R. Kolb
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 9 shared
Konrad Bocian
Sopot University of Applied Science
- 9 shared
Natalia Frankowska
Uniwersytet SWPS
Awards & honors
- Top three paper award in group communication, NCA, 2005, 200…
- Dennis Gouran Research Award for best published paper in gro…
- Top paper in interpersonal communication, ICA, 2020
- Top paper in Communication Science and Biology, ICA, 2020
- Best published paper in Small Group Communication, presented…
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