Hagop Sarkissian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hagop Sarkissian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hagop |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarkissian |
| SIGNATURE | SARKISSIAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2469-1593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Particularism vs. Bribery Tolerance Scale
Particularism—bending rules to help one’s friends and relations—is a morally ambiguous form of corruption that, unlike bribery, might be justified by virtues of loyalty and care. To test whether they involve distinct moral vulnerabilities, we developed a 16-item Particularism vs. Bribery Tolerance Scale (PBTS) using lay input from Chinese populations, Rasch modeling, and Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM). Two pilot studies (N = 91; N =…
Emotion's Ambiguity and Wisdom's Clarity in Seongho Yi Ik's Sachil Sinpyeon 四七新篇
How can individuals differentiate between similar yet distinct emotions, especially when they are intertwined in experience? And how can they ascertain the moral implications of their emotions, given their complexities? I explore these questions by examining Korean philosopher Seongho Yi Ik's (1681–1763) discussion of emotional ambiguity in his New Compilation of the Four-Seven Debate ( Sachil Sinpyeon 四七新編). This debate grappled with the nature …
How Remonstration Fails
There are few institutions that talk about virtues as much as military organizations. These military virtues are not, however, possessed by individuals in isolation; they are inculcated and influenced by the countless ways in which values are shared, both among military members and between individuals and the military itself. Unfortunately, a normative framework that is extremely well-suited to capture this significant link between individual vir…
How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models
The replicability and importance of the correlation between cognitive style and religious belief have been debated. Moreover, the literature has not examined distinct psychological accounts of this relationship. We tested the replicability of the correlation (N = 5284; students and broader samples of Canadians, Americans, and Indians); while testing three accounts of how cognitive style comes to be related to belief in God, karma, witchcraft, and…
Objectivity
Moral objectivism and a punishing God
The Philosophical Challenge from China
Rigorously argued and meticulously researched, an investigation of current topics in philosophy that is informed by the Chinese philosophical tradition. For too long, analytic philosophy discounted insights from the Chinese philosophical tradition. In the last decade or so, however, philosophers have begun to bring the insights of Chinese thought to bear on current philosophical issues. This volume brings together leading scholars from East and W…
Supernatural, social, and self-monitoring in the scaling-up of Chinese civilization
This commentary evaluates Ara Norenzayan's central thesis in Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, focusing on how it bears on the rise of early Chinese civilization. Discussion centers on three themes: supernatural monitoring, social monitoring, and self-monitoring
Ritual and Rightness in the Analects
Experimental Philosophy
Folk Moral Relativism
It has often been suggested that people's ordinary understanding of morality involves a belief in objective moral truths and a rejection of moral relativism. The results of six studies call this claim into question. Participants did offer apparently objectivist moral intuitions when considering individuals from their own culture, but they offered increasingly relativist intuitions considering individuals from increasingly different cultures or wa…
Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?
Recent experimental research has revealed surprising patterns in people's intuitions about free will and moral responsibility. One limitation of this research, however, is that it has been conducted exclusively on people from Western cultures. The present paper extends previous research by presenting a cross-cultural study examining intuitions about free will and moral responsibility in subjects from the United States, Hong Kong, India and Colomb…
Recent Approaches to Confucian Filial Morality
A hallmark of Confucian morality is its emphasis on duties to family and kin as weighty features of moral life. The virtue of 'filiality' or 'filial piety' (xiao), for example, is one of the most important in the Confucian canon. This aspect of Confucianism has been of renewed interest recently. On the one hand, some have claimed that, precisely because it acknowledges the importance of kin duties, Confucianism should be seen as an ethics rooted …
Moral objectivism and a punishing God
Recent Approaches to Confucian Filial Morality
A hallmark of Confucian morality is its emphasis on duties to family and kin as weighty features of moral life. The virtue of 'filiality' or 'filial piety' (xiao), for example, is one of the most important in the Confucian canon. This aspect of Confucianism has been of renewed interest recently. On the one hand, some have claimed that, precisely because it acknowledges the importance of kin duties, Confucianism should be seen as an ethics rooted …
Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?
Recent experimental research has revealed surprising patterns in people's intuitions about free will and moral responsibility. One limitation of this research, however, is that it has been conducted exclusively on people from Western cultures. The present paper extends previous research by presenting a cross-cultural study examining intuitions about free will and moral responsibility in subjects from the United States, Hong Kong, India and Colomb…
Recent Approaches to Confucian Filial Morality
A hallmark of Confucian morality is its emphasis on duties to family and kin as weighty features of moral life. The virtue of 'filiality' or 'filial piety' (xiao), for example, is one of the most important in the Confucian canon. This aspect of Confucianism has been of renewed interest recently. On the one hand, some have claimed that, precisely because it acknowledges the importance of kin duties, Confucianism should be seen as an ethics rooted …
Folk Moral Relativism
It has often been suggested that people's ordinary understanding of morality involves a belief in objective moral truths and a rejection of moral relativism. The results of six studies call this claim into question. Participants did offer apparently objectivist moral intuitions when considering individuals from their own culture, but they offered increasingly relativist intuitions considering individuals from increasingly different cultures or wa…
Experimental Philosophy
Ritual and Rightness in the Analects
The Philosophical Challenge from China
Rigorously argued and meticulously researched, an investigation of current topics in philosophy that is informed by the Chinese philosophical tradition. For too long, analytic philosophy discounted insights from the Chinese philosophical tradition. In the last decade or so, however, philosophers have begun to bring the insights of Chinese thought to bear on current philosophical issues. This volume brings together leading scholars from East and W…
Supernatural, social, and self-monitoring in the scaling-up of Chinese civilization
This commentary evaluates Ara Norenzayan's central thesis in Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict, focusing on how it bears on the rise of early Chinese civilization. Discussion centers on three themes: supernatural monitoring, social monitoring, and self-monitoring
Objectivity
Moral objectivism and a punishing God
How is analytical thinking related to religious belief? A test of three theoretical models
The replicability and importance of the correlation between cognitive style and religious belief have been debated. Moreover, the literature has not examined distinct psychological accounts of this relationship. We tested the replicability of the correlation (N = 5284; students and broader samples of Canadians, Americans, and Indians); while testing three accounts of how cognitive style comes to be related to belief in God, karma, witchcraft, and…
How Remonstration Fails
There are few institutions that talk about virtues as much as military organizations. These military virtues are not, however, possessed by individuals in isolation; they are inculcated and influenced by the countless ways in which values are shared, both among military members and between individuals and the military itself. Unfortunately, a normative framework that is extremely well-suited to capture this significant link between individual vir…
The Particularism vs. Bribery Tolerance Scale
Particularism—bending rules to help one’s friends and relations—is a morally ambiguous form of corruption that, unlike bribery, might be justified by virtues of loyalty and care. To test whether they involve distinct moral vulnerabilities, we developed a 16-item Particularism vs. Bribery Tolerance Scale (PBTS) using lay input from Chinese populations, Rasch modeling, and Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM). Two pilot studies (N = 91; N =…
Emotion's Ambiguity and Wisdom's Clarity in Seongho Yi Ik's Sachil Sinpyeon 四七新篇
How can individuals differentiate between similar yet distinct emotions, especially when they are intertwined in experience? And how can they ascertain the moral implications of their emotions, given their complexities? I explore these questions by examining Korean philosopher Seongho Yi Ik's (1681–1763) discussion of emotional ambiguity in his New Compilation of the Four-Seven Debate ( Sachil Sinpyeon 四七新編). This debate grappled with the nature …
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Morality (4 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (3 works) · Political science (3 works)