Ariel Gail

Professor Gail S. Goodman has been a distinguished psychologist since 1993. She is also the director of the Center for Public Policy Research, University of California Davis. She is widely acknowledged for her pioneering the science of the eyewitness memory of children and using child victims to be legal witnesses. Professor Goodman publishes widely has received numerous grants, and has received numerous international and national distinctions. She has consulted with various nations and organizations around the world regarding policies and the research of child abuse in the justice system. She is a consultant at the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center and was previously the Multidisciplinary Interview Center of Sacramento County Child Protective Services. She holds memberships in many professional organizations, like the Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association. She is the founder of the American Professional Society for the Abuse of Children, the Psychonomics Society Society for Research into Child Development, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has been president of American Psychological Association's Developmental Psychology Division as well as three divisions of the Child and Family Practice and Policy Division American Psychology Law Society and Division Developmental Psychology.