Angela M. Crossman earned her MA (1998) and PhD (2001) in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University, and was subsequently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Child Development (RWJMS-UMDNJ), where she studied infant learning and memory, as well as children’s deception and suggestibility. In 2003, she began as an Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, where she is now Deputy Chair in the Department of Psychology. Current grant-funded research studies involve the impact of exposure to domestic violence on children’s cognitive development and mental health, as well as the development of deceptive skill in childhood, as a function of child and environmental characteristics. For the past 12 years, she has conducted research on issues surrounding child witnesses, including eyewitness identification accuracy, suggestibility, credibility, false beliefs, deception and the effects of direct and cross-examination. She is an active member of several scholarly organizations, presently serving as Secretary of the Section on Child Maltreatment (Section 1, Division 37) of the American Psychological Association. |
