Ketika Garg

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Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi, India.

Publications

* Equal Contribution

Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings

  1. Deng W., Garg K*, Mobbs D* (2026). Compromise and Blame in Risky Dyadic Foraging. [Preprint] [PDF]. In-press at PNAS.
  2. Garg K. *, Moser C.*, Dromiack H., Anwarzai Z., Ramos-Fernandez G. Synergy drives collective performance in networks. [Preprint] [GitHub]. In-press at npj Complexity.
  3. Garg K, Deng W, Mobbs D (2026). Utilizing Social Foraging as a Framework for Studying Decisions in Groups. iScience. [PDF].
  4. Anwarzai Z.*, Moser C.*, Dromiack H., Garg K., Ramos-Fernandez G. (2026). Collective Intelligence as Collective Information Processing. Cognition.
  5. 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]
  6. 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]
  7. 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]
  8. Garg, K., & Kello, C. T. (2021). Efficient Lévy walks in virtual human foraging. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 5242. [Link]
  9. 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]
  10. 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/In the pipeline

  1. A Multi-level Examination of How Hostility Unfolds During Online Argumentation. Garg K.*, Zhang B.*, Anderson I.*, Pandita S. and Mobbs, D. [Preprint]. Submitted.
  2. Computational Account of Effort in Survival Decisions. Okada, N., Garg, K., Wise T., Mobbs, D.
  3. How Collective Beliefs Shape Polarization Dynamics. w/ James Brooks, Kerem Oktar and Molly Aspel.
  4. Emergence of human collaborative foraging. w/ Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias

Non-journal writings

Book Reviews and Book Chapters

  1. Garg, K. (2025). The Collaborative Condition: Understanding the Nature, Dynamics, and Failures of Working Together. [PDF]
  2. 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.

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