Dani Dahyeon Kang, PhD

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Assistant Professor

danikang@uw.edu

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

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
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
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
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