RESEARCH INTERESTS
Memory development in early childhood and children's involvement in the legal system. Specific interests include the effects of stress on children's memory; emotional regulation and physiological reactivity as predictors of children's coping with and memory for stressful events; interview strategies that facilitate and impede children's eyewitness abilities; jurors' perceptions of child witnesses; and consequences of legal involvement on child victims.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Yim, I., Quas, J. A., Cahill, L., & Hayakawa, C. (in press). Children's and adults' salivary cortisol responses to an identical psychosocial laboratory stressor. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Quas, J. A., Wallin, A. R., Horwitz, B., Davis, E., & Lyon, T. (2009). Maltreated children’s knowledge of and emotional reactions to dependency court involvement. Behavioral and the Law, 27, 97-117.
Goodman, G. S., & Quas, J. A. (2008). Repeated interviews and children’s memory: It’s more than just how many. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 386-390.
Quas, J. A., Malloy, L., Goodman, G. S., Melinder, A., Schaaf, J., & D’Mello, M. (2007). Developmental differences in the effects of repeated interviews and interviewer bias on young children’s false reports. Developmental Psychology, 43, 823-837.