Jodi Anne Quas (born January 31, 1969) is an applied developmental psychologist who is known for her work on how maltreatment and abuse affect memory development and children's ability to give eyewitness testimony after experiencing trauma.[1][2] She holds the position of Professor of Psychological Science and Nursing Science at the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology.[3]
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| Occupation | Professor of Psychology |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Davis |
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| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
Biography
editQuas was born in Chicago, IL.[4] She attended Arizona State University, where she received her B.S. degrees in Psychology and Communication in 1992. She continued her education in Developmental Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where she complete her M.A. in 1994 and her Ph.D. in 1998. Her dissertation titled "Children's memory of experienced and nonexperienced events across repeated interviews" was conducted under the supervision of Gail Goodman.[5]
After completing a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Quas joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 2000.
Quas is the Editor of several books including Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview (with Mitchell Eisen and Gail Goodman)[6] and Emotion in Memory and Development: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Considerations (with Robyn Fivush).[7] She serves on the editorial board of the journals Child Abuse & Neglect[8] and Applied Cognitive Psychology.[9]
Awards
editQuas received the Louise Kidder Early Career Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 2002[10] and the Saleem Shah Early Career Award from the American Psychology–Law Society, American Psychological Association (APA) Division 41 in 2004.[11]
In 2008, Quas was awarded the APA Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology[4] and the Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Psychologists.[12]
In 2017, Quas has selected to receive the Outstanding Community Research Award from the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at University of California, Irvine in recognition of her contributions to developing "methods of enhancing children's eyewitness memory" and furthering understanding of "the effects of stress and trauma on children's development, and the consequences of legal involvement on child witnesses, victims, and even defendants."[13]
Research
editQuas studies the psychological experiences and the memory development of children who have lived through traumatic abuse, including physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect.[14] Quas and her collaborators aim to gain understanding of the exact events that occurred during an abuse scenario involving a child, so the abusers can face proper legal ramifications.[3]
In a series of studies involving diverse cohorts of 4- to 14-year-old children, Quas and her colleagues measured brain activity while children performed challenging tasks designed to activate stress reactions in the brain. The researchers identified six distinct patterns of stress reactivity to the scenarios, and considered how such variation may help to explain how traumatic experiences can lead to adverse mental effects and alter memory development.[15]
Quas continued to research cases of sexual abuse, but the focus shifted from children to adolescents. The main type of cases involving adolescents that Quas studied were those that involved human trafficking victims. Quas aims to get a better understanding of a victim's experience by studying the responses they give to investigators. With a better understanding of their responses, possible connections can be made in how a victim responds to certain questions.[16]
Quas's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation.[17][16][18]
Representative publications
edit- Boyce, W. T., Quas, J., Alkon, A., Smider, N. A., Essex, M. J., & Kupfer, D. J. (2001). Autonomic reactivity and psychopathology in middle childhood. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 179(2), 144–150.
- Goodman, G. S., Quas, J. A., & Ogle, C. M. (2010). Child maltreatment and memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 325–351.
- Quas, J. A., Bauer, A., & Boyce, W. T. (2004). Physiological reactivity, social support, and memory in early childhood. Child Development, 75(3), 797-814.
- Quas, J. A., Goodman, G. S., Bidrose, S., Pipe, M. E., Craw, S., & Ablin, D. S. (1999). Emotion and memory: Children's long-term remembering, forgetting, and suggestibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 72(4), 235–270.
- Quas, J. A., Goodman, G. S., Ghetti, S., Alexander, K. W., Edelstein, R., Redlich, A. D., ... & Haugaard, J. J. (2005). Childhood sexual assault victims: Long-term outcomes after testifying in criminal court. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 70(2), i-139.
- Quas, J. A., Goodman, G. S., & Jones, D. P. (2003). Predictors of attributions of self‐blame and internalizing behavior problems in sexually abused children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44(5), 723–736.
References
edit- ^ Mahnken, Kevin (21 July 2021). "Stuck at Home, Separated from Teachers, Children May Have Faced More Severe Abuse During Pandemic, Research Suggests". Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "169 - Dr. Jodi Quas: Communicating with Child Victims of Trauma". endinghumantrafficking.org. 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ a b "Jodi Quas – UCI School of Social Ecology". faculty.sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ a b "Award for distinguished scientific early career contributions to psychology: Jodi Anne Quas". American Psychologist. 63 (8): 690–692. November 2008. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.63.8.690. PMID 19014222.
- ^ Quas, Jodi Anne (1998). Children's memory of experienced and nonexperienced events across repeated interviews (Thesis). ProQuest 304423944.
- ^ Eisen, Mitchell L.; Quas, Jodi A.; Goodman, Gail S. (2001). Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-67509-7.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
- ^ Quas, Jodi; Fivush, Robyn (2009). Emotion in Memory and Development: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Considerations. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532693-2. OCLC 262143117.[page needed][non-primary source needed]
- ^ "Jodi Anne Quas - Editorial Board - Child Abuse & Neglect - Journal - Elsevier". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Applied Cognitive Psychology Editorial Board".
- ^ "SPSSI | Louise Kidder Early Career Awardees". www.spssi.org. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Saleem Shah Award". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "APA Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Psychologists". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Quas wins 2017 Outstanding Community Researcher award". uci.edu. May 19, 2017.
- ^ "Jodi Quas, Ph.D." Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | UCI CNLM. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ Quas, Jodi A.; Yim, Ilona S.; Oberlander, Tim F.; Nordstokke, David; Essex, Marilyn J.; Armstrong, Jeffrey M.; Bush, Nicole; Obradović, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas (November 2014). "The symphonic structure of childhood stress reactivity: Patterns of sympathetic, parasympathetic, and adrenocortical responses to psychological challenge". Development and Psychopathology. 26 (4pt1): 963–982. doi:10.1017/S0954579414000480. PMC 4557735. PMID 24909883.
- ^ a b "NSF Award Search: Award # 1921187 - Collaborative Proposal: Legal Questioning of Adolescent Victims". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Jodi Quas gets NSF grant to improve protocols for interviewing young sex trafficking victims". UCI News. 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 2116377 - Testing the Value of Rapport Building to Enhance Adolescent Disclosures in Online and In-Person Interviews". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
External links
edit- Faculty profile at UC Irvine
- Jodi Quas publications indexed by Google Scholar