July 24, 2008
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Jodi Anne Quas

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Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Phone: 824-7693
Office: 3367 SEII
Email: jquas@uci.edu
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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.

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Selected Publications

  • Carrick, N., & Quas, J. A. (in press). Effects of discrete emotions on young children's ability to discern fantasy and reality. Developmental Psychology.
  • Quas, J. A., Carrick, N., Alkon, A., Goldstein, L. H., & Boyce, W. T. B. (in press). Children's memory for a mild stressor: The role of parasympathetic withdrawal and sympathetic activation. Developmental Psychobiology.
  • Quas, J. A., Wallin, A., Papini, S., Lench, H., & Scullin, M. (2005). Suggestibility, social context, and memory for a novel experience in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 91, 315-341.
  • Quas, J. A., Thompson, W. C., & Clarke-Stewart, A. (2005). Do jurors know what isn't so about child witnesses? Law and Human Behavior, 29, 425-456.
  • Quas, J. A., Goodman, G. S., Ghetti, S., Alexander, K., Edelstein, R., Redlich, A., Cordon, I., & Jones, D. P. H. (2005). Childhood sexual assault victims: Long-term outcomes after testifying in criminal court. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 70, Serial No. 280.
  • Alexander, K. W., Quas, J. A., Goodman, G. S., Ghetti, S., Edelstein, R., Redlich, A., Cordon, I., & Jones, D. P. H. (2005). Traumatic impact predicts predicts long-term memory for documented child sexual abuse. Psychological Science, 16, 33-40.
  • Quas, J. A., Bauer, A B., & Boyce, W. T. B. (2004). Emotion, reactivity, and memory in early childhood. Child Development, 75, 1-18.
  • Goodman, G. S., Ghetti, S., Quas, J. A., Edelstein, R., Alexander, K., Redlich, A. R., Cordon, I., & Jones, D. (2003). A prospective study of memory for child sexual abuse: New findings relevant to the repressed/lost memory controversy. Psychological Science, 14, 113-118.
  • Quas, J. A., & Schaaf, J. M. (2002). Children's memories of experienced and nonexperienced events across repeated interviews. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 83, 304-338.
  • Quas, J. A., Murowchick, E., Bensadoun, J., & Boyce, W. T. (2002). Predictors of children's cortisol activation during the transition to kindergarten. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 23, 304-313.

 
 
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