Ariel Gail

Prof. Gail S. Goodman has been a distinguished professor of psychology since 1993, and the Director of the Center for Public Policy Research, University of California Davis. She is widely known for starting modern scientific studies of eyewitness accounts from children's memories and also the application of child victims in court settings. Professor Goodman has published numerous papers, received many grants and has been awarded many international and national distinctions. She has worked with a variety of organisations and governments across the world on research and policies relating to children who are people who are victims of the law. She serves as consultant for the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center) of the Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She is a fellow of several professional organizations, such as those of 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 Traumatic Stress and Women 56). Prof. 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. Professor Goodman has served as president of American Psychological Association's Developmental Psychology Division and three Divisions of Child and Family Policy and Practice Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Developmental Psychology.