11/24/21 Call with Gail Goodman

11/24/21 Call with Gail Goodman • PhD from UCLA in developmental psych, focus on cognitive development and memory development in children v. adults • Postdoc - went to some law school classes at UDenver, got interested in children's eyewitness testimony about childhood sexual abuse • Lot of research into memory for traumatic events for child sexual abuse • Done lots of studies, published a lot in peer-reviewed journals • Early in career federal funding: emotional effects on kids of testifying about sexual abuse. Later sampling with older adolescents and adults - memory of abuse incidents and legal involvement • Research on children's accuracy of reports, true memory and false memory, kids who have been removed from the home - publishing follow up on long-term memory of same people • Has also done work on adult memories of childhood sexual abuse • Has read about JE/GM online, but has not interviewed victims in this case or GM/JE • Has testified as an expert befor