The Nightingale Versus the Bear: What Persuasion Research Reveals About Ukraine's and Russia's Messaging on the War

Abstract

In this report, we examine Russian and Ukrainian state information campaigns related to the Russian war in Ukraine through the lens of persuasion research. We focus our analysis on official Russian and Ukrainian persuasive communication campaigns targeting each states own public and military personnel, as well as those campaigns targeting the public and military personnel of its foe. We apply lessons gleaned from persuasion research to understand which characteristics of attempts by each state to boost its own morale while degrading that of its adversary may (or may not) have been persuasive.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Accession Number
AD1212829

Entities

People

  • Alyssa Demus
  • Khrystyna Holynska
  • Krystyna Marcinek

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Cognition
  • Employment
  • International Relations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Neuropsychology
  • Online Communications
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Second World War
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Psychology
  • Warfare

Readers

  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Systems Analysis and Design