Ariel Gail

Professor Gail S. Goodman holds an Distinguished Chair in Psychology within the University of California Davis and is the director of its Center for Public Policy Research. She is widely acknowledged as the pioneer of modern research of the eyewitness memory of children and using child victims to be legal witnesses. Professor Goodman is a prolific author who has received many prizes and grants. She has advised many government agencies and governments around the globe on policies and studies pertaining to the treatment of children victims in the justice system. She currently acts as a consultant to the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center located at Sacramento County Child Protective Services (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center). She is a part of many professional organizations including 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 Psychological Psychology of women and trauma stress 56). Professor. Goodman is a fellow of the Psychonomics Society Society for Research in Child Development American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children as well as the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She was president of American Psychological Association's Developmental Psychology Division and Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Society for Family and Child policy and practice.