Rick J. Scheidt

Professor, School of Family Studies and Human Services & FSHS Associate Director for Graduate Education and Research

Departments & Academic Units:

• Family Studies and Human Services

Contact Info:

315 Justin Hall
(785) 532-1483

Areas of Specialization:

• Adult development and aging
• Life-span human development
• Research methods
• Aging in the cinema
• Environment-aging relations
• Rural aging

Education:

• B.S. in psychology, California State University at Fresno (1967)
• M.S. in psychology, California State University at Fresno (1969)
• Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (1973)
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California (1975-1976)

Short Biography

I grew up near Clovis, California, where I fell in love with psychology in high school. To earn my way through college, I taught martial arts and almost abandoned psychology for a life in karate. I like amateur archeology, am a member of the Skeptics Society, and continue my daily quest to distinguish human aging from fatigue.