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ArticleRoyal Society open science2025

Response to collective threat: Russian invasion unifies Ukrainians across ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographic lines.

Joshua Borycz, Benjamin D Horne, Catherine Luther, Garriy Shteynberg, Suzie Allard, Brandon Prins, R Alexander Bentley

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Joshua BoryczStevenson Science and Engineering Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
Benjamin D HorneSchool of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5779-3019
Catherine LutherSchool of Journalism and Media, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Garriy ShteynbergDepartment of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Suzie AllardSchool of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-3848
Brandon PrinsDepartment of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States.
R Alexander BentleyDepartment of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9086-2197

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Under the collective threat of war, the 2022 Russian invasion would be expected to unify Ukrainians across distinct ethnic, linguistic, geographic and generational identities. Here, we show this using survey data collected in Belarus and Ukraine before and after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Using our data collection waves from spring and summer of 2022, we observed attitudinal changes rarely documented before and after such an event. Our data include both the invaded country, Ukraine, as the 'treatment' and a non-invaded country, Belarus, as the 'control'. We find that, in Ukraine but not in Belarus, geopolitical views were sharply unified by the experience of the invasion, outweighing the heterogeneous group identities before the event. Our observations serve as evidence that identity fusion under collective threat can override long-standing social divisions.

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collective threatintergroup conflictpolitical polarizationsocial identitysocial norms

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PMID40051410
PMCPMC11883821

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