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.

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Recent Publications

Exploring neural markers of incentive salience and real-world drinking among individuals with alcohol use disorder.
(2026 Feb 24)
Physiol Behav
Kang D, Murgia S, Caumiant EP, Lee Z, Venerable WJ 3rd, Boland A, Fairbairn CE, Federmeier KD

Objective Assessment in Clinical Psychological Science: Progress in Wearable Alcohol Biosensors.
(2026 Feb 12)
Annu Rev Clin Psychol
Fairbairn CE, Kang D, Han J, Bosch N

Seven Symptoms Over Nearly 4,000 Days: Item-Level Variability in the Psychometric Properties of Daily Alcohol Use Disorder Symptoms in Young Adult Drinkers.
(2026 Jan 12)
Assessment
King KM, Kang D, Schultz ME, Lee CM, Dora J, Boness CL, Watts AL

The impact of alcohol on brain response in social context: A hyperscanning alcohol-administration trial.
(2025 Oct 15)
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Kang D, Fairbairn CE, Han J, Federmeier KD

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

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