
Dani Dahyeon Kang, PhD
Dr. Dahyeon Kang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where her work focused on the etiology of alcohol and substance use disorders through multimodal research methods, including alcohol administration, neuroimaging, transdermal biosensors, and ecological momentary assessments. At the University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Kang investigates how individual and social factors interact to influence alcohol and cannabis use behaviors.
Department Affiliations
Centers/Programs
Scholarly Expertise
- Addiction
- Addiction psychiatry/psychology
- Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
- Behavior neuroimaging
- Clinical neuroscience
- Human-centered design
- Inpatient psychiatry/psychology
- Machine learning
- MRI/neuroimaging
- Neurocognitive disorders
- Neurodegenerative disorders, dementia, Alzheimer's
- Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
- Outpatient psychiatry/psychology
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Recent Publications
Social Drinking and Addiction: A Social-Cognitive Model for Understanding Alcohol Use Disorder Risk.
(2025 Apr 6)
Curr Dir Psychol Sci
Fairbairn CE, Kang D
(2025 Apr 6)
Curr Dir Psychol Sci
Fairbairn CE, Kang D
Increased Mesostriatal Intrinsic Connectivity Associated With Cue Exposure in Adult Cannabis Users: Preliminary Findings.
(2025 Aug)
Addict Biol 30(8): e70067
Kleinhans NM, Terry GE, Kang D, Larsen SF, Larimer ME
(2025 Aug)
Addict Biol 30(8): e70067
Kleinhans NM, Terry GE, Kang D, Larsen SF, Larimer ME
When less is more: How attentiveness impacts the efficacy of online personalized feedback interventions for college student alcohol use.
(2025 May)
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken) 49(5): 1139-1148
Kang D, Graupensperger S, Piccirillo M, Lewis M, Foster KT, Larimer ME
(2025 May)
Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken) 49(5): 1139-1148
Kang D, Graupensperger S, Piccirillo M, Lewis M, Foster KT, Larimer ME
Exploring associations between drinking contexts and alcohol consumption: An analysis of photographs.
(2025 Apr)
J Psychopathol Clin Sci 134(3): 284-297
Ariss T, Caumiant EP, Fairbairn CE, Kang D, Bosch N, Morris JK
(2025 Apr)
J Psychopathol Clin Sci 134(3): 284-297
Ariss T, Caumiant EP, Fairbairn CE, Kang D, Bosch N, Morris JK
Alcohol and emotion: Analyzing convergence between facially expressed and self-reported indices of emotion under alcohol intoxication.
(2025 Jan 9)
Psychol Addict Behav
Caumiant EP, Kang D, Girard JM, Fairbairn CE
(2025 Jan 9)
Psychol Addict Behav
Caumiant EP, Kang D, Girard JM, Fairbairn CE
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