* Equal Contribution

Journal Articles

Collective Intelligence as Collective Information Processing. Anwarzai Z.*, Moser C.*, Dromiack H., Garg K., Ramos-Fernandez G. (2025). Cognition.
Pandita, S.*, Garg, K.*, Zhang, J., & Mobbs, D. (2024). Three roots of online toxicity: Disembodiment, accountability, and disinhibition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Elsevier. [PDF][Link]
Garg, K., Smaldino, P. E., & Kello, C. T. (2024). Evolution of explorative and exploitative search strategies in collective foraging. Collective Intelligence, 3(1), 26339137241228858. [PDF][Link][GitHub]
Garg, K., Kello, C. T., & Smaldino, P. E. (2022). Individual exploration and selective social learning: Balancing exploration-exploitation trade-offs in collective foraging. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 19(189). [PDF][Link][GitHub]
Garg, K., & Kello, C. T. (2021). Efficient Lévy walks in virtual human foraging. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 5242. [Link]
Garg, K.*, Padilla-Iglesias, C.*, Restrepo Ochoa, N., & Knight, V. B. (2021). Hunter-gatherer foraging networks promote information transmission. Royal Society Open Science, 8(12), 211324. [Link][GitHub]
Kumar, A. A., Garg, K., & Hawkins, R. (2021). Contextual flexibility guides communication in a cooperative language game. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 43). [Link]

Preprints/Under Review

Utilizing Social Foraging as a Framework for Studying Decisions in Groups. Garg K, Deng W, Mobbs D. [Preprint]. Accepted at iScience.
Blame and Compromise in Risky Dyadic Foraging. Deng W., Garg K*, Mobbs D* [Preprint].
Synergy drives collective problem-solving. Garg K. *, Moser C.*, Dromiack H., Anwarzai Z., Ramos-Fernandez G. [Preprint]. Under review at npj Complexity.

Book Reviews and Book Chapters

Garg, K. (2025). The Collaborative Condition: Understanding the Nature, Dynamics, and Failures of Working Together.

Mobbs D, Garg K, Tashjian SM. From Perception to Action: Understanding the Evolution of Survival Decisions in Humans and Other Species. In: Armony J, Vuilleumier P, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience.

Popular Science

How Online Argumentation Promotes Toxicity. w/ Ian Anderson, Swati Pandita, Bo Zhang and Dean Mobbs.
How Collective Beliefs Shape Polarization Dynamics. w/ James Brooks, Kerem Oktar and Molly Aspel.
Emergence of human social foraging. w/ Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias.