Kelly
McWilliams
Associate Professor
Education
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California
PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of California, Davis
BA, Psychology, Emory University
Bio
Dr. Kelly McWilliams is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and core faculty in the Psychology & Law PhD training area of the Psychology Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. McWilliams studies children’s eyewitness memory, forensic interviewing, and how legal professionals (e.g., attorneys, forensic interviewers) interact with child witnesses. Her work examines developmental mechanisms that influence how children recount past events, particularly stressful or ambiguous ones, and how standard legal and investigative questioning practices may align (or misalign) with children’s developmental capacities.
Scholarly Work
Link to full list of scholarly work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kelly-Mcwilliams-2/research