Ariel Gail

Prof. Gail S. Goodman holds an Distinguished Chair in Psychology in the University of California Davis and is Director of the Center for Public Policy Research. She has been widely recognized for her pioneering work in studying child witnesses and eyewitness memories in the legal setting. Professor Goodman has published extensively as well as received numerous grants. She has also been recognized with many international and national awards. She has advised a variety of government bodies and administrations around the world about policies and research relating to the treatment of child victims by the legal system. She is a consultant at the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center which was previously known as it was the Multidisciplinary Interview Center of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She was a part of various professional associations, for example, that of Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association. (Divisions Experimental Psychology Developmental Psychology Society for Children and Families policy and practice American Psychology Law Society Psychology of Women and Traumatic Stress 56) Additionally, she is 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 served as president of the American Psychological Association's Developmental Psychology Division and Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Society for Family and Child the Practice and Policy.