PychoAgent: Psychology-driven LLM Agents for Explainable Panic Prediction on Social Media during Sudden Disaster Events (2025.emnlp-main)
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Mengzhu Liu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Chuan Ai, Chen Gao, Xinghong Li, Lingnan He, Kaisheng Lai, Yingfeng Chen, Xin Lu, Yong Li, Quanjun Yin
| Challenge: | Social media's rich information content and spatiotemporal granularity provide unique opportunities for emotion prediction and management. |
| Approach: | They propose a Psychology-driven generative Agent framework for explainable panic prediction based on emotion arousal theory. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves panic emotion prediction performance by 13% to 21% compared to baseline models. |
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