Ariel Gail

Prof. Gail S. Goodman holds the Distinguished Chair in Psychology within the University of California Davis and is the director of its Center for Public Policy Research. The university is renowned for launching the modern science of eyewitness memory in children and using child victims to testify as legal witnesses. Professor Goodman's publications are extensive and she has been awarded numerous grants, and has been the winner of many honors the national level and international. She has advised a variety of administrations and agencies across the world about policies and studies pertaining to the treatment of children victims in the justice system. She also serves as a consultant to the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center. (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center), of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She is also a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association, (Divisions Experimental Psychology Developmental Psychology Society for Child and Family Practice and Policy American Psychology Law Society Psychology of Women and Traumatic Stress 55). Professor Goodman belongs to Psychonomics Society, the Psychonomics Society Society for Research in Child Development American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children as a founding Member, International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect as well as the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She was president of 3 divisions (Division Society for Child and Family Policy as well as Practice Division of the American Psychological Law Society as well as Division Developmental Psychology) and one Section (Child Maltreatment) of the American Psychological Association.