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Overview

Jodi A. Quas is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology and sociology and political science. Their scholarly output includes significant contributions to subfields such as social psychology, gender studies, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work addresses key topics including child abuse and trauma, deception detection and forensic psychology, sex work and related issues, criminal justice and corrections analysis, memory processes and influences, sexual assault and victimization studies, and psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending.

Quas has published extensively in various academic venues. Their frequent publication outlets include:

  • Child Maltreatment
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Law and Human Behavior
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law

Among their recent papers are:

  • Identification and incidence of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Do laypersons conflate poverty and neglect?, 2020, Law and Human Behavior
  • Using Positive Emotion Training With Maltreated Youths to Reduce Anger Bias and Physical Aggression, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Emotional awareness, empathy, and generosity in high-risk youths, 2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Rapport building with adolescents to enhance reporting and disclosure, 2023, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Their collaborative work involves frequent coauthors, including:

  • Rachel E. Dianiska
  • Thomas D. Lyon
  • Kelli L. Dickerson
  • Allison D. Redlich
  • Stacy Metcalf

Best Publications

  • Associations between physiological reactivity and children's behavior: advantages of a multisystem approach.

    Amy M. Bauer;Jodi A. Quas;W. Thomas Boyce

  • A Prospective Study of Memory for Child Sexual Abuse New Findings Relevant to the Repressed-Memory Controversy

    Gail S. Goodman;Simona Ghetti;Jodi A. Quas;Robin S. Edelstein

  • Autonomic reactivity and psychopathology in middle childhood.

    W. Thomas Boyce;Jodi Quas;Abbey Alkon;Nancy A. Smider

  • Emotion and Memory: Children's Long-Term Remembering, Forgetting, and Suggestibility ☆ ☆☆ ★

    Jodi A. Quas;Gail S. Goodman;Sue Bidrose;Margaret-Ellen Pipe

  • Predictors of Accurate and Inaccurate Memories of Traumatic Events Experienced in Childhood

    Gail S. Goodman;Jodi A. Quas;Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce;M.M. Riddlesberger

  • Children's Reactions to and Memory for a Stressful Event: Influences of Age, Anatomical Dolls, Knowledge, and Parental Attachment

    Gail S. Goodman;Jodi A. Quas;Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce;M.M. Riddlesberger

  • Filial Dependency and Recantation of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations

    Lindsay C. Malloy;Thomas D. Lyon;Jodi A. Quas

  • Adult attachment style and parental responsiveness during a stressful event

    Robin S. Edelstein;Kristen Weede Alexander;Phillip R. Shaver;Jennifer M. Schaaf

  • Traumatic Impact Predicts Long-Term Memory for Documented Child Sexual Abuse

    Kristen Weede Alexander;Jodi A. Quas;Gail S. Goodman;Simona Ghetti;Simona Ghetti

  • Metacognitive emotion regulation: Children's awareness that changing thoughts and goals can alleviate negative emotions.

    Elizabeth L. Davis;Linda J. Levine;Heather C. Lench;Jodi A. Quas

  • Child maltreatment and memory.

    Gail S. Goodman;Jodi A. Quas;Christin M. Ogle

  • Predictors of attributions of self-blame and internalizing behavior problems in sexually abused children.

    Jodi A. Quas;Gail S. Goodman;David P.H. Jones

  • Coaching, Truth Induction, and Young Maltreated Children’s False Allegations and False Denials

    Thomas D. Lyon;Lindsay C. Malloy;Jodi A. Quas;Victoria A. Talwar

  • The role of attachment and cognitive inhibition in children's memory and suggestibility for a stressful event.

    Kristen Weede Alexander;Kristen Weede Alexander;Gail S Goodman;Jennifer M Schaaf;Robin S Edelstein

  • Do jurors "know" what isn't so about child witnesses?

    Jodi A. Quas;William C. Thompson;K. Alison;Clarke Stewart

  • Children's and adults' salivary cortisol responses to an identical psychosocial laboratory stressor.

    Ilona S. Yim;Jodi A. Quas;Larry Cahill;Cathy M. Hayakawa

  • Physiological reactivity, social support, and memory in early childhood.

    Jodi A. Quas;Amy Bauer;W. Thomas Boyce

  • Memory and suggestibility in the forensic interview

    Mitchell L. Eisen;Jodi A. Quas;Gail S. Goodman

  • Innovations for child witnesses: A national survey.

    Gail S. Goodman;Jodi A. Quas;Josephone Bulkley;Cheryl Shapiro

  • Effects of Victim, Defendant, and Juror Gender on Decisions in Child Sexual Assault Cases1

    Jodi A. Quas;Bcette L. Bottoms;Tamara M. Haegerich;Kari L. Nysse‐Carris

  • Childhood sexual assault victims: long-term outcomes after testifying in criminal court.

    Jodi A Quas;Gail S Goodman;Simona Ghetti;Kristen W Alexander

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail S. Goodman
Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis
Thomas D. Lyon
Thomas D. Lyon University of Southern California
Robin S. Edelstein
Robin S. Edelstein University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University
Simona Ghetti
Simona Ghetti University of California, Davis
W. Thomas Boyce
W. Thomas Boyce University of California, San Francisco
Linda J. Levine
Linda J. Levine University of California, Irvine
Heather C. Lench
Heather C. Lench Texas A&M University
Douglas A. Granger
Douglas A. Granger University of California, Irvine
Bette L. Bottoms
Bette L. Bottoms University of Illinois at Chicago

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