Current Work

• "Deriving Equity from Expecations: A Cross-Cultural Examination." (under review)
• "The Effects of Legitimacy and Power on Perceptions of Fairness." (in prep for submission)
• "Sources of Legitimacy: the Role of Status." (in prep for submission)
• "Ecological Race Differences in the Occupational Structure." with Dee Hill Zuganelli (in prep for submission)
• "Toward a Sociology of the Brain: Recursive Neural and Social Networks." (design phase)

David Melamed's dissertation research is formally integrating graded characteristics into Expectation State Theories and applying that advancement to a new parameter for predicting perceptions of justice sentiments (using Reward Expectations Theory).