UC Davis psychology professor Gail Goodman will talk about child victims and witnesses at 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, as the third speaker in the campus's Profiling the Social Sciences lecture series. Her talk will be held in the campus's Alumni and Visitors Center, at the corner of Old Davis Road and Mrak Hall Circle Drive. The series, begun this year, explores the social sciences and has included such topics as economic change, violence in long-term relationships and the founding of New England. Goodman's studies, which specialize in memory development and children's abilities and experiences as victims/witnesses, have been cited in U.S. Supreme Court decisions. In the memory development area, her work explores theoretical issues concerning the relationship between how an event is represented to a child and memory, as well as the relationship between emotion and memory. In the victim/witness area, her research focuses on children's ability to provide testimony about events they have experienced or witnessed, especially events related to child abuse, and on the psychological effects of testifying in court. She is also currently studying the effects of child abuse on behavioral adjustment and relations between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Chancellor's Forum on the Future, the Division of Social Sciences, the Institute of Governmental Affairs, and the Center for History, Society and Culture.