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umented and prosecuted GSA to investigate, prospectively, the accuracy of long-term memory of sexual abuse in childhood. Address correspondence to Gail S. Goodman. Department of Pm.. chology. One Shields Ave.. University of California. Da via. CA 95616. ggoodmanenctlavis.edu. or to Jodi (inns. Department of

e, compared with females, males may be less likely to dis- close CSA (e.g., Finkelhor, Hotaling, Lewis, & Smith, 1990; Widom & Morris, 1997; but see Goodman et al., 2003) and may have less detailed autobiographical memories about emotional events (Davis, 1999). If males are hesitant to talk about CSA, their m

03) for details about the measures in the original study and identification of target eases. enpectively. sfin predictors of Mime I disclosure. see Goodman et al. j2003). An identical analysis predicting disc home in the smaller Mime 3 sample revealed similar findings. ahlsough age no longer significantly pre

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE A Prospective Study of Memory for Child Sexual Abuse: New Findings Relevant to the Repressed-Memory Controversy Author(s): Gail S. Goodman, Simone Ghetti, .Todi A. Quas, Robin S. Edelstein, Kristen Weede Alexander, Allison D. Redlich, Ingrid M. Cordon and David P. H. Tones Source: Psyc

ng adults who, more than a decade earlier, were involved in criminal prosecutions as victims of CSA and participated in a study of court testimony (Goodman et al., 1992). De- tailed documentation of the abuse was available for all cases. The re- search goals were to (a) compare disclosure rates of documented CS

shed light on this issue, we analyzed adults' memories for verified childhood genital contact after an 18-to-20-year delay. Corresponding Author Gail S. Goodman, Department of Psychology, University of California, One Shields Ave.. Davis. CA 95616 E-mail. pasordnianerucdaviciedu 3534-013 Page 1 of 16 EFT

n, 2015; Van Abbema & Bauer, 2005). For example, adolescents and adults accurately remember injuries and assaults experienced 6 to 13 years prior (Goodman et al., 2003; Greenhoot, McClo- skey, & Glisky, 2005). Young children's ability to remember details of a medical event decreases over an initial 3-month p

CHILD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES Trauma and Long-Term Memory for Childhood Events: Impact Matters Gail S. Goodman,' Jodi A. Quas,2 Deborah Goltlfarb,3 Lauren Gonzalves,1 and Alejandra Gonzalez' 'University of California, Davis, 2University of California, Irvine,

ated to that maltreatment. Study I started as research on 4- to 17-year-ohls involved (as alleged victims) in prosecutions for child sexual abuse (Goodman et al., 1992). Documentation gathered at the start of the study included information from police and prosecu- tors' records, interviews with nonoffending p