Ariel Gail

Prof. Gail S. Goodman, Distinguished Professor of psychology and Director of the Center for Public Policy Research is a professor at University of California Davis. She is well-known as the pioneer of modern-day scientific research of eyewitness accounts from children's memories and the use of child victimization in court. Prof. Goodman has published extensively, received many grants and received numerous national and international awards. She has worked with a variety of organisations and governments all over the world to conduct studies and policy issues pertaining to child victims of the legal system. She currently serves as consultant to the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center located at Sacramento County Child Protective Services (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center). She is a fellow of several professional organizations, such as The Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association (Divisions Experimental Psychology Developmental Psychology Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice American Psychology Law Society Psychology of women and trauma stress 56). Professor Goodman also belongs to the Psychonomics Society, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Professor Goodman has been the president of three divisions (Division Society for Child and Family Policy as well as Practice Division of the American Psychology-Law Society, and Division Developmental Psychology) and one Section (Child Maltreatment) of the American Psychological Association.