Yoojin Chae, Ph.D.
Email: yoojin.chae@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-3024
Office: HS 309
Currently accepting graduate students for Fall 2025

Research Focus
My research focuses on childrens memory and abilities as witnesses. In particular,
I have been devoted to a wide range of research on childrens eyewitness memory and
suggestibility, trauma and memory, attachment and memory, language and memory, forensic
interview techniques, and adults evaluations of childrens autobiographical memory.
For instance, I have examined event memory and suggestibility of maltreated children
in relation to trauma-related psychopathology (e.g., dissociation, PTSD, depression).
I have also conducted a series of studies to explore the link between attachment and
memory for distressing events, and have recently expanded my work to the study of
childrens visual attention during encoding as a possible mediator of the attachment-memory
relation. In addition, I have studied the effects of different interviewing techniques
and narrative skill on low-SES childrens eyewitness memory. I have further investigated
adults ability to detect childrens true and false memory reports which has notable
implications for the legal system.
Child Development Lab
Areas of Expertise
- Autobiographical memory development
- Children's eyewitness memory and suggestibility
- Attachment and memory for distressing experiences
- Child maltreatment and developmental psychopathology
- Forensic interview techniques
Selected Publications
Chae, Y., Hartman, D., & Goodman, G. S. (in press). What children remember after talking with parents: Implications for childrens memory and testimony. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Gonzalves, L. C., Chae, Y., Wang, Y., Widaman, K. F., Bederian-Gardner, D.,Goodman-Wilson, M., Thompson, R. A., Shaver, P. R., & Goodman, G. S. (in press). Childrens memory and suggestibility years later: Age, distress, and attachment. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Chae, Y., Goodman, G. S., Wang, Y., Goodman, M., McWilliams, K., Shaver, P. R., Thompson, R. A., & Widaman, K. F. (2021). Parents attachment orientation, interviewers support, and childrens memory for a mildly distressing event. Memory, 29, 1384-1395.
Lawson, M., Chae, Y., Noriega, I., & Valentino, K. (2021). Parent-child attachment security is associated with preschoolers memory accuracy for emotional life events through sensitive parental reminiscing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 209, 105168.
Chae, Y., Goodman, M., Goodman, G. S., Troxel, N., McWilliams, K., Thompson, R. A., Shaver, P. R. & Widaman, K. F. (2018). How children remember the Strange Situation: The role of attachment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 166, 360-379.
Chae, Y., Kulkofsky, S., Debaran, F. B., Wang, Q., & Hart, S. L. (2016). Low-SES preschool childrens eyewitness memory: The role of narrative skill. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 34, 55-73.
Chae, Y., Goodman, G. S., Larson, R. P., Augusti, E.-M., Alley, D., VanMeenen, K. M., Culver, M., & Coulter, K. P. (2014). Childrens memory and suggestibility about a distressing event: The role of childrens and parents attachment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 123, 90-111.
Chae, Y., Kulkofsky, S., Debaran, F. B., Wang, Q., & Hart, S. L. (2014). Low-SES childrens eyewitness memory: The effects of verbal labels and vocabulary skills. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 32, 732-745.
Chae, Y., Goodman, G. S., Eisen, M., & Qin, J. (2011). Event memory and suggestibility in abused and neglected children: Trauma-related psychopathology and cognitive functioning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 520-538.
Chae, Y., Goodman, G. S., Bederian-Gardner, D., & Lindsay, A. (2011). Methodological issues and practical strategies in research on child maltreatment victims' abilities and experiences as witnesses. Child Abuse & Neglect, 35, 240-248.
Chae, Y., Goodman, G. S., & Edelstein, R. S. (2011). Autobiographical memory development from an attachment perspective: The special role of negative events. In J. B. Benson (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Vol. 40 (pp. 1-49). Burlington: Academic Press.
Chae, Y. (2010). Application of laboratory research on eyewitness testimony. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 10, 252-261.
Chae, Y., Ogle, C. M., & Goodman, G. S. (2009). Remembering negative childhood experiences: An attachment theory perspective. In J. A. Quas & R. Fivush (Eds.), Emotion and memory in development: Biological, cognitive, and social considerations (pp. 3-27). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Chae, Y., & Ceci, S. J. (2005). Individual differences in children's recall and suggestibility: The effect of intelligence, temperament, and self-perceptions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 383-407.
Links
Research Website
Child Development Lab
Research Gate Profile
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yoojin_Chae
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