Ariel Gail

Professor Gail S. Goodman is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology as well as director of the Center for Public Policy Research at the University of California Davis. She is widely acknowledged for being the pioneer of research into child witnesses as well as eyewitness memories within legal contexts. Professor Goodman is an prolific writer, has won numerous awards and grants. She has consulted with numerous government agencies and governments across the world on policies and studies on child victims in the legal system. She serves as a consultant to the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center of Sacramento County Child Protective Services (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center). She is a member of various professional associations, including that of Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association. (Divisions Experimental Psychology and Developmental Psychology Society for Children and Families policy and practice American Psychology Law Society Psychology of Women and Traumatic Stress 56) She is also a founding member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the Psychonomics Society Society for Research in Child Development, as well as the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She was president of American Psychological Association's Developmental Division and Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Society for Family and Child the Practice and Policy.