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Dr. Baldwin Way is a Professor of Social Psychology at The Ohio State University. He leads the Social and Affective Immunology Lab (S.A.I.L.), focusing on bidirectional relationships between psychological factors and immune system function. His work integrates social psychology with pharmacology, genetics, and neuroimaging, emphasizing neurochemical mechanisms like oxytocin, opioids, and serotonin.
Education: PhD in Social Psychology from UCLA (2003), AB from Dartmouth College (1994). Research topics include stress resilience, social media’s impact on inflammation, and drug effects on socio-emotional processes. He leads NIH-funded projects (R01MH135501, R01DA042080) exploring geospatial stress exposure, neighborhood influences on adolescent brain development, and religious involvement’s health benefits.
Key interests span translational research linking mind-body interactions, including repurposing acetaminophen for mental health conditions like borderline personality disorder. Ongoing projects investigate inflammation’s role in depression and substance use, leveraging GPS tracking and biosensor data. Dr. Way’s lab emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement to address health disparities.
Publications highlight groundbreaking findings on acetaminophen’s dampening effects on empathy and trust, as well as genetic influences on stress responses (e.g., 5-HTTLPR polymorphism studies). He advises graduate students like G.R.O. Durso and D. Mischkowski, and collaborates with institutions worldwide. Future work focuses on digital health interventions and neurobiological pathways underpinning resilience.
