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What can subjective forgetting tell us about memory for childhood trauma?Simona Ghetti
Department of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Mem Cognit 34:1011-25. 2006..The differences between subjective and objective memory underscore the risks of using subjective measures to assess lost memory of abuse...
Effects of past abuse experiences on children's eyewitness memoryG S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA
Law Hum Behav 25:269-98. 2001..Contributions to psychological theory and legal implications for understanding children's eyewitness memory and testimony are discussed...
Maltreated children's memory: accuracy, suggestibility, and psychopathologyMitchell L Eisen
Department of Psychology, California State University, Davis CA 95616, USA
Dev Psychol 43:1275-94. 2007..Sexual and/or physical abuse predicted greater accuracy. The study contributes important new information to scientific understanding of maltreatment, psychopathology, and eyewitness memory in children...
The development of memory for own- and other-race facesGail S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 98:233-42. 2007..During young childhood, developmental influences on face processing operate on a system sufficiently plastic to preclude, under certain conditions, the cross-race effect...
Hearsay versus children's testimony: Effects of truthful and deceptive statements on jurors' decisionsGail S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Law Hum Behav 30:363-401. 2006..Jurors had difficulty discerning accurate from deceptive child statements regardless of testimony format. Implications for psychology and the legal system are discussed...
Detecting lies in children and adultsRobin S Edelstein
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA
Law Hum Behav 30:1-10. 2006..Implications of these findings for understanding lie-detection accuracy are discussed, as are potential applications to the forensic context...
Wailing babies in her wakeGail S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Am Psychol 60:872-81. 2005..Implications for psychology and for legal practice are discussed...
Child maltreatment and memoryGail S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 61:325-51. 2010..However, more direct investigations are needed to test precisely when and how childhood trauma affects memory for emotionally significant, distressing experiences. Legal implications and future directions are discussed...
Children's expressed emotions when disclosing maltreatmentLiat Sayfan
Department of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Child Abuse Negl 32:1026-36. 2008..Little scientific research exists on this topic, and yet children's emotional expressions at disclosure may inform psychological theory and play a crucial role in legal determinations...
Individual differences in emotional memory: adult attachment and long-term memory for child sexual abuseRobin S Edelstein
Department of Psychology, University of California-Davis, CA, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:1537-48. 2005..Attachment anxiety was unrelated to memory accuracy, regardless of abuse severity. Implications of the findings for theories of avoidant defensive strategies and emotional memory are discussed...
Understanding children's use of secrecy in the context of eyewitness reportsBette L Bottoms
Department of Psychology, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607 7137, USA
Law Hum Behav 26:285-313. 2002..We discuss implications for understanding the development of children's knowledge and use of secrecy, and applications of the research to issues that arise when child witnesses give reports in legal contexts...
Nearly 4 years after an event: children's eyewitness memory and adults' perceptions of children's accuracyGail S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California-Davis, 95616, USA
Child Abuse Negl 26:849-84. 2002..Training and personal experience were associated with adults' ratings of children's reports. Implications for evaluations of child abuse reports are discussed...
Detecting deception in children: event familiarity affects criterion-based content analysis ratingsKathy Pezdek
Department of Psychology, School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 91711 3955, USA
J Appl Psychol 89:119-26. 2004..Results raise serious questions regarding the forensic suitability of the CBCA for assessing the veracity of children's accounts...
Neurodevelopmental correlates of true and false recognitionPedro M Paz-Alonso
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 8686, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:2208-16. 2008..In summary, concomitant changes in the MTL, prefrontal cortex, and parietal cortex underlie developmental increases in true and false recognition during childhood and adolescence...
Trauma and memory: effects of post-event misinformation, retrieval order, and retention intervalPedro M Paz-Alonso
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Memory 16:58-75. 2008..Findings indicate that even for a highly negative event, adults' memory is not immune to inaccuracies and suggestive influences...
False memories in children and adults: age, distinctiveness, and subjective experienceSimona Ghetti
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA
Dev Psychol 38:705-18. 2002..Source attributions did not significantly differ between true and false memories. Implications for theories of false memory and memory development are discussed...
Adult attachment style and parental responsiveness during a stressful eventRobin S Edelstein
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616 8686, USA
Attach Hum Dev 6:31-52. 2004..These findings suggest that self-report adult attachment measures may be useful in the domain of parent-child relationships...
A prospective study of memory for child sexual abuse: new findings relevant to the repressed-memory controversyGail S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA
Psychol Sci 14:113-8. 2003..Failure to report CSA should not necessarily be interpreted as evidence that the abuse is inaccessible to memory, although inaccessibility or forgetting cannot be ruled out in a subset of cases...
Memory and suggestibility in maltreated children: age, stress arousal, dissociation, and psychopathologyMitchell L Eisen
Department of Psychology, California State University, King Hall, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 83:167-212. 2002..Neither dissociation nor stress arousal significantly predicted children's memory. Implications for understanding maltreated children's eyewitness memory are discussed...
Repeated questions, deception, and children's true and false reports of body touchJodi A Quas
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 7085, USA
Child Maltreat 12:60-7. 2007..Of note, children who had been touched and told the truth were the most inconsistent. Results call into question the common assumption that consistency is a useful indicator of veracity in children's eyewitness accounts...
The role of attachment and cognitive inhibition in children's memory and suggestibility for a stressful eventKristen Weede Alexander
Human Development, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 8686, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 83:262-90. 2002..Theoretical implications concerning effects of stress and individual differences on children's eyewitness memory and suggestibility are discussed...
Adults' memories of childhood: true and false reportsJianjian Qin
Department of Psychology, California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819 6007, USA
J Exp Psychol Appl 14:373-91. 2008..Overall, the source-monitoring framework provided a viable explanatory framework. Implications for theory and clinical and forensic interviews are discussed...
Childhood sexual assault victims: long-term outcomes after testifying in criminal courtJodi A Quas
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine 92697 7085, USA
Monogr Soc Res Child Dev 70:vii, 1-128. 2005....
Developmental differences in the effects of repeated interviews and interviewer bias on young children's event memory and false reportsJodi A Quas
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 7085, USA
Dev Psychol 43:823-37. 2007..Implications for developmental differences in memory and suggestibility are discussed...
Why children tell: a model of children's disclosure of sexual abuseTina B Goodman-Brown
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, 95616-8686, USA
Child Abuse Negl 27:525-40. 2003..When evaluating children for possible sexual abuse, developmental, cognitive, and socio-emotional factors need to be taken into consideration...
Detecting deception in children's testimony: factfinders' abilities to reach the truth in open court and closed-circuit trialsH K Orcutt
Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Law Hum Behav 25:339-72. 2001..There was no support for the notion that jurors reach the truth better when children testify in open court versus via CCTV. Implications for jurors' abilities to reach the truth are discussed...
Traumatic impact predicts long-term memory for documented child sexual abuseKristen Weede Alexander
California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA
Psychol Sci 16:33-40. 2005..These results indicate that, in addition to understanding the role of traditional cognitive factors, understanding an event's traumatic impact is important for predicting the accuracy of long-term memory for reported CSA...
Consistency in children's reports of sexual and physical abuseSimona Ghetti
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
Child Abuse Negl 26:977-95. 2002..Cognitive abilities did not predict consistency in sexual abuse or physical abuse reports. CONCLUSIONS: Implications for understanding children's allegations of abuse are discussed...
Predictors of attributions of self-blame and internalizing behavior problems in sexually abused childrenJodi A Quas
Department of Psychology and Social Behavoir, University of California, Irvine 92697 7085, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:723-36. 2003..The purpose of the present study was to identify predictors of two potential sequelae of child sexual abuse, self-blame attributions and internalizing behavior problems...
Legal involvement in child sexual abuse cases. Consequences and interventionsSimona Ghetti
Department of Psychology, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8686, USA
Int J Law Psychiatry 25:235-51. 2002
A comparison of types of attorney representation for children in California juvenile court dependency casesGail S Goodman
Department of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Child Abuse Negl 32:497-501. 2008..g., public defender, District Attorney, private firms) and to evaluate these types of representation with respect to children's experiences in foster care...
A comparison of two forms of hearsay in child sexual abuse casesAllison D Redlich
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, USA
Child Maltreat 7:312-28. 2002..The latter ratings were the strongest predictor of defendant-guilt judgments...
Taking responsibility for an act not committed: the influence of age and suggestibilityAllison D Redlich
Policy Research Associates Inc, 345 Delaware Avenue, Delmar, New York 12054, USA
Law Hum Behav 27:141-56. 2003..Results showed that younger and more suggestible participants were more likely than older and less suggestible participants to falsely take responsibility. Implications of these findings for juvenile justice are discussed...
Children's false memory and true disclosure in the face of repeated questionsJennifer M Schaaf
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 100:157-85. 2008..Path analysis demonstrated that individual differences in behavioral problems and inhibitory ability predicted children's provision of inaccurate information. Implications for psychological theory and legal application are discussed...
What people believe about memorySvein Magnussen
Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway
Memory 14:595-613. 2006..Implications of these findings are briefly discussed...
Gail S. Goodman: Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public PolicyGail S Goodman
Am Psychol 60:835. 2005
Gail S. Goodman: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied ResearchGail S Goodman
Am Psychol 60:870-2. 2005
