Ariel Gail

Professor Gail S. Goodman holds an distinguished chair in psychology at the University of California Davis and is the director of its Center for Public Policy Research. She is widely credited with starting the modern scientific study of children's eyewitness memory and child victims as witnesses in legal contexts. Professor Goodman is a prolific writer and has been awarded several grants and has received many national and international prizes. She has offered advice on policy and research to numerous agencies and government departments from all over the world. She works as a Consultant to the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center (formerly known as Multidisciplinary Interview Center - of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She is also a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association, (Divisions Experimental Psychology Developmental Psychology Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice American Psychology Law Society Psychology of Women and Traumatic Stress 56). She is a founding member of the American Professional Society for the Abuse of Children, the Psychonomics Society Society for Research into Child Development as well as the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She was president of American Psychological Association Divisions for Policy for Children and Families and Practice Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Developmental Psychology.