For a full list of publications, see my Google Scholar page.

Selected Papers

1. Integrative experiments identify how punishment affects welfare in public goods games
   Alsobay, M., Rand, D. G., Watts, D. J., & Almaatouq, A. (2026). Science, 392(6794), eaeb5280.

2. The Task Space: An integrative framework for team research
   Hu, X. E., Whiting, M. E., Gandhi, L., Watts, D. J., & Almaatouq, A. (2026). Management Science, advance online publication.

3. Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences
   Almaatouq, A., Griffiths, T. L., Suchow, J., Whiting, M. E., Evans, J., & Watts, D. J. (2024). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e33.

4. When combinations of humans and AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis
   Vaccaro, M., Almaatouq, A., & Malone, T. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 8(12), 2293–2303.

5. Empirica: A virtual lab for high-throughput macro-level experiments
   Almaatouq, A., Becker, J., Houghton, J. P., Paton, N., Watts, D. J., & Whiting, M. E. (2021). Behavior Research Methods, 53(5), 2158–2171.

6. Task complexity moderates group synergy
   Almaatouq, A., Alsobay, M., Yin, M., & Watts, D. J. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(36), e2101062118.

7. Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
   Almaatouq, A., Noriega-Campero, A., Alotaibi, A., Krafft, P. M., Moussaid, M., & Pentland, A. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11379–11386.