Publications

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Valen Levinson, Adam1@, Margaret L. Traeger. “Going Meta: Maintaining “Authenticity” with Self-Reflexivity.” Forthcoming, American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Harrell, Ashley, and Margaret L. Traeger. "Replication and extension of Carlson and Zaki (2018): Do lay theories of altruism apply equally to all actors?." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 126 (2026): 104969.

Harrell, Ashley^, and Margaret L. Traeger^. “Evidence of spillovers from (non) cooperative human-bot to human-human interactions.” iScience 28, no. 8 (2025).

Harrell, Ashley, and Margaret L. Traeger. “Reputation-based reciprocity in human–bot and human–human networks.” PNAS nexus 4, no. 5 (2025): pgaf150.

Traeger, Margaret L., Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Malte Jung, Brian Scassellati, Nicholas A. Christakis. “Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 12 (2020): 6370-6375. 

• Commentary: Intelligent machines as social catalysts

Bromage, Sabri, Enkhmaa Gonchigsumlaa, Margaret Traeger, Bayarbat Magsar, Qifan Wang, Jorick Bater, Hewei Li, and Davaasambuu Ganmaa. “Awareness and Attitudes Regarding Industrial Food Fortification in Mongolia and Harbin.” Nutrients 11, no. 1 (2019): 201.

Bromage, Sabri, Bernard Rosner, Janet Rich-Edwards, Davaasambuu Ganmaa, Soninkhishig Tsolmon, Zuunnast Tserendejid, Tseye-Oidov Odbayar, Margaret Traeger, and Wafaie Fawzi. “Comparison of Methods for Estimating Dietary Food and Nutrient Intakes and Intake Densities from Household Consumption and Expenditure Data in Mongolia.” Nutrients 10, no. 6 (2018): 703.

Shakya, Holly B., Jessica M. Perkins, Margaret Traeger, Alexander C. Tsai, David R. Bangsberg, Bernard Kakuhikire, and Nicholas A. Christakis. “Social Network Correlates of IPV Acceptance in Rural Honduras and Rural Uganda.” SSM-Population Health no. 4 (2018): 236-24

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Li, Shaochun@, Margaret Traeger, Ryan Cook@, Ahmed Abbasi, and Pengzhu Zhang. “Predicting Engagement in Human-Robot Teams via Node-Edge Co-Attention Dynamic Graph Neural Networks.” In the Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 632-641. HICSS, 2026.

Chelsey Graham@, Jarrod Goentzel, Ozlem Ergun, and Margaret Traeger. “Improving supply chain network resilience: A framework for diagnosing vulnerabilities in e-commerce distribution networks.” In the INFORMS TSL Society Conference 2026, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 26-29, 2026.

Shaochun Li@, Margaret Traeger, Ryan Cook@, Ahmed Abassi, and Peng-Zhu Zhang. “Modeling Team Engagement in Multi-Agent Collaboration: A Dynamic Graph Neural Network Approach.” In the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 2025.

Strohkorb Sebo, Sarah, Margaret Traeger, Malte Jung, and Brian Scassellati. “The Ripple Effects of Vulnerability: The Effects of a Robot's Vulnerable Behavior on Trust in Human-Robot Teams.” In the Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 178-186. ACM, 2018.

Updated October 2026. ^ Equal authorship, @ Graduate student co-author, 1 Posthumously