Publications of Dominik Deffner

Wu, C. M., Deffner, D., Kahl, B., Meder, B., Ho, M. H., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2025). Adaptive mechanisms of social and asocial learning in immersive collective foraging. Nature Communications, 16, Article 3539. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58365-6

Breen, A. J., & Deffner, D. (2024). Risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy for leading an urban invasion. eLife, 12, Article RP89315. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89315.3

Deffner, D., Fedorova, N., Andrews, J., & McElreath, R. (2024). Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(48), Article e2322887121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322887121

Deffner, D., Mezey, D., Kahl, B., Schakowski, A., Romanczuk, P., Wu, C. M., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups. Nature Communications, 15, Article 2683. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47010-3

Mezey, D., Deffner, D., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., & Romanczuk, P. (2024). Visual social information use in collective foraging. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(5), Article e1012087. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012087

Pacher, K., Krause, J., Bartashevich, P., Romanczuk, P., Bideau, P., Pham, D., Burns, A. L., Deffner, D., Dhellemmes, F., Binder, B., Boswell, K. M., Galván-Magaña, F., Domenici, P., & Hansen, M. J. (2024). Evidence for a by-product mutualism in a group hunter depends on prey movement state. Functional Ecology, 38(10), 2123–2138. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14638

Pope-Caldwell, S., Deffner, D., Maurits, L., Neumann, T., & Haun, D. (2024). Variability and harshness shape flexible strategy‑use in support of the constrained flexibility framework. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 7236. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57800-w

Sterner, P., Pargent, F., Deffner, D., & Goretzko, D. (2024). A causal framework for the comparability of latent variables. Structural Equation Modeling, 31(5), 747–758. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2339396

Tump, A. N., Deffner, D., Pleskac, T. J., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). A cognitive computational approach to social and collective decision-making. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(2), 538–551. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231186964

Sibilsky, A., Colleran, H., Deffner, D., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Copying fideliy of functional and non-functional features in ni-Vanuatu children: A transmission chain study. PLoS ONE, 18(2), Article e0274061. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274061