Academic publications

Academic

Karakai, Denys, Valentyn Hatsko, Ruslana Moskotina, Kateryna Shyrokykh, Tymofii Brik, and Andrii Darkovich. “United in Trust: Ukrainian Attitudes to the European Parliament After the Russian Invasion.” Europe-Asia Studies (2026): 1-35.

Gerber, Theodore P., Orsola Torrisi, and Tymofii Brik. “The Societal Consequences of War: Social Science Perspectives and Findings From Ukraine.” Sociology Compass 20, no. 7 (2026): e70231.

Chayinska, Maria, Ying Tong Woo, Özden Melis Uluğ, Tymofii Brik, and Luca Caricati. “Witnessing Racial Discrimination Mobilizes Intra-Minority Allyship: Egalitarian Beliefs, Not Identification With All Humanity, Shape Who Acts.” Journal of Applied Social Psychology (2026).

Karakai, Denys, Ruslana Moskotina, Tymofii Brik, and Serhiy Dembitskyi. “Bridging the Gap: A Mediation Analysis of War Exposure, Feeling of Insecurity and Religiosity.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2026).

Rabinovych, Maryna, Tymofii Brik, Igor Piddubnyi, Andrii Darkovich, Myroslava Savisko, Valentyn Hatsko, and Serhii Tytiuk. “Predicting budget robustness of Ukrainian local self-government during Russia’s war against Ukraine.” East European Politics 42, no. 1 (2026): 16-39.

Rabinovych, Maryna, Tymofii Brik, Andrii Darkovich, Valentyn Hatsko, and Myroslava Savisko. “Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: challenges for regional and local self-governance.” Post-Soviet Affairs 41, no. 5 (2025): 411-435.

Besta, Tomasz, Emma Thomas, Marta Olech, Paweł Jurek, Danny Osborne, Marketa Palace, Gözde Akbaş, et al. “When (and where) do pandemics foster anti-migrant actions? Individual-, contextual- and societal-level drivers affecting social cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic.” International Journal of Intercultural Relations 108 (2025): 102269.

Besta, Tomasz, Emma Thomas, Gözde Celikkol, Marta Olech, Paweł Jurek, Martijn van Zomeren, et al. “Cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity as moderators of the relationship between group process and pro-migrant collective action intentions.” Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology (2025): 100234.

Thomas, Emma F., Cassandra Stothard, Tomasz Besta, Gözde Akbaş, Jan Cieciuch Becker, Maja Becker, Tymofii Brik, et al. “Anti-immigration conspiracy beliefs are associated with endorsement of conventional and violent actions opposing immigration and attitudes towards democracy across 21 countries.” Communications Psychology 3, no. 1 (2025): 66.

Doell, Kimberly C., Boryana Todorova, Madalina Vlasceanu, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Ekaterina Pronizius, et al. “The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries.” Scientific Data 11, no. 1 (2024): 1066.

Kyrychenko, Yara, Tymofii Brik, Sander van der Linden, and Jon Roozenbeek. “Social identity correlates of social media engagement before and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.” Nat Commun 15, 8127 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52179-8

Vlasceanu, Madalina, Kimberly C. Doell, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Boryana Todorova, Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg, Samantha J. Grayson, Yash Patel et al. “Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries.” Science advances 10, no. 6 (2024): eadj5778.

Brik, Tymofii, Andrew G. Livingstone, Maria Chayinska, and Evgeniya Bliznyuk. “How feeling understood predicts trust and willingness to forgive in the midst of violent intergroup conflict: Longitudinal evidence from Ukraine.” Social Psychological and Personality Science 15, no. 5 (2024): 487-497.

Brik, Tymofii, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, and Ilia Murtazashvili. “Introduction: special issue on the political economy of the War in Ukraine.” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 39, no. 1 (2024): 2-9.

Brik, Tymofii, and Maksym Obrizan. “Gender Gap in Urban Job Market During the Pandemic: The Case of Ukraine.” Comparative Economic Studies 66, no. 2 (2024): 215-235.

Brik, Tymofii, and Vitalii Protsenko. “Does crime undermine support for privatization? Evidence from Ukraine.” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 39, no. 1 (2024): 91-117.

Brik, Tymofii, and Tornike Metreveli. “Orthodox Churches during the Pandemic in Ukraine and Georgia: Narratives and New Practices.” Problems of Post-Communism 71, no. 2 (2024): 95-106.

Arends, Helge, Tymofii Brik, Benedikt Herrmann, and Felix Roesel. “Decentralization and trust in government: quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine.” Journal of Comparative Economics 51, no. 4 (2023): 1356-1365.

Slobozhan, Ivan, Tymofii Brik, and Rajesh Sharma. “Differentiable characteristics of Telegram mediums during protests in Belarus 2020.” Social Network Analysis and Mining 13, no. 1 (2023): 19.

Slobozhan, Ivan, Tymofii Brik, and Rajesh Sharma. “Longitudinal change in language behaviour during protests: a case study of Euromaidan in Ukraine.” Social Network Analysis and Mining 12, no. 1 (2022): 107.

Ruggeri, Kai, Amma Panin, Milica Vdovic, Bojana Većkalov, Nazeer Abdul-Salaam, Jascha Achterberg, Carla Akil et al. “The globalizability of temporal discounting.” Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 10 (2022): 1386-1397.

Chayinska, Maria, Özden Melis Uluğ, Arin H. Ayanian, Johanna Claudia Gratzel, Tymofii Brik, Anna Kende, and Craig McGarty. “Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs and distrust of science predict risky public health behaviours through optimistically biased risk perceptions in Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany.” Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 25, no. 6 (2022): 1616-1634.

Brik, Tymofii. “Church competition during the pandemic: The case of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.” Euxeinos: Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region 12, no. 33 (2022).

Brik, Tymofii, Halyna Herasym, and Iryna Radiuk. “Attitudes towards cremation in a society with fragmented religious market: mixed-method research in Ukraine.” Eastern and North European Journal of Death Studies 1, no. 1 (2022): 110-130.

Brik, Tymofii. “When church competition matters? Intra-doctrinal competition in Ukraine, 1992–2012.” Sociology of Religion 80, no. 1 (2019): 45-82.

Brik, Tymofii. “Wages of male and female domestic workers in the Cossack Hetmanate: Poltava, 1765 to 1769.” Economic History of Developing Regions 33, no. 2 (2018): 123-146.

Chapters in monographs

Ivashchenko-Stadnik, Kateryna, Evgen Golovakha, and Tymofii Brik. “Conclusion: Towards a Resilient Future — Reflections and Recommendations.” In Ukrainian Society During Wartime: Grassroots Resilience as a Mechanism for Recovery, 2026. [NEW — confirm exact publisher and page range before posting; Google Scholar does not yet list them]

Brik, Tymofii, and Tornike Metreveli. “Shots of Faith: The Influence of Christian Nationalism on Vaccination Behaviour in Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, and Montenegro during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In Orthodox Christianity and the COVID-19 Pandemic, pp. 170-185. Routledge, 2024.

Kalenychenko, Tetiana, Cyril Hovorun, and Tymofii Brik. “Church Fragmentation and the Pandemic: Analysis of Four Eastern Christian Groups in Ukraine.” In Orthodox Christianity and the COVID-19 Pandemic, pp. 14-35. Routledge, 2024.

Brik, Tymofii. “Club Models, Church Competition, and Religious Regulations.” Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (2022): 1-16.

Brik, Tymofii, and Jose Casanova. “Thirty years of religious pluralism in Ukraine.” From ‘the Ukraine’ to Ukraine: A Contemporary History of 1991–2021 (2021): 249-282.

Brik, Tymofii, “The Donbas and social science: Terra incognito.” In Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War? Ibidem Verlag (2021).

Brik, Tymofii, Iryna Kogut, and Natalia Shapoval. “Higher Education Reforms in Ukraine during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” In Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic, pp. 42-61. Brill, 2022.

Brik, Tymofii, and Stanislav Korolkov. “Religious Markets in Ukraine: Post-communist Revivals and New Directions.” Ukraine in Transformation: From Soviet Republic to European Society (2020): 145-165.

Brik, Tymofii, and Oleksii Shestakovskyi. “Attitudes about privatization and the shadow of communism: 25 years of anti-market scepticism.” Ukraine in transformation: From Soviet republic to European society (2020): 35-53.

Policy papers

Arends, Helge, Tymofii Brik, Benedikt Herrmann, and Felix Roesel. “Ukraine’s resilience: How an administrative reform boosted social capital and trust in Ukrainian communities,” VoxEU / CEPR (2023)

Brik, Tymofii, and Jennifer Murtazashvili. “The source of Ukraine’s resilience: how decentralized government brought the country together.” Foreign Affairs 28 (2022).

Brik, Tymofii, Natalia Shapovalova, Luke Cooper, and Mary Kaldor. “Meeting the immediate needs of the Ukrainian economy, the role of international actors and the importance of understanding the conflict as a conventional war.” (2022).

Brik, Tymofii, and Oleksii Krymeniuk. “What do the majority of Ukrainians think about state control over economics and personal freedoms?.” Vox Ukraine (2019).

Brik, Tymofii. “Ukraine’s ‘Type 4’ Conflict: Why Is It Important to Study Terminology Before Changing It?.” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 575 (2019): 1-7.