Ariel Gail

Professor Gail S. Goodman, Director of the Psychology Department and Director of Center for Public Policy Research is a professor at University of California Davis. She is well-known for starting modern scientific studies of the memory of children as eyewitnesses and also the application of child victims in court settings. Professor Goodman published widely and has won numerous grants, and has received several international and national awards. She has offered policy and research consultations to many agencies and departments from all over the world. She currently acts as a consultant to the Special Assault Forensic Evaluation Center at Sacramento County Child Protective Services (formerly Multidisciplinary Interview Center). She is a part of a variety of professional organizations, including Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association. She was a founder member of the American Professional Society for the Abuse of Children, the Psychonomics Society Society for Research in Child Development as well as the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Professor Goodman has been the president of three divisions (Division Society for Policy on Child and Family as well as Practice Division of the American Psychology-Law Society, and Division Developmental Psychology) and one section (Child Maltreatment) of the American Psychological Association.