Ariel Gail

Prof. Gail S. Goodman, Distinguished Professor of psychology and Director of Center for Public Policy Research is a professor at the University of California Davis. It is widely believed that she was the one who developing the first modern-day investigation of the scientific study of children's eyeswitness memory as well as child victims' witnesses in legal settings. Professor Goodman published widely and has won several grants, and has been recognized with numerous internationally and national awards. She has collaborated with various organizations and government officials across the globe regarding policies and research related to children as victims in the legal system. She works as a Consultant to the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center in Sacramento County Child Protective Services (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center). She was a part of a variety of professional organizations, for example, those of the Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association. (Divisions Experimental Psychology and Developmental Psychology Society for Child and Family Praxis and Policy American Psychology Law Society Psychology of Women and Traumatic Stress 56) She is also a founding members 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 was head of the American Psychological Association's three divisions: Division American Psychology Law Society, Division Developmental Psychology and Division Society for Family and Child the Practice and Policy.