Psychology-driven LLM Agents for Explainable Panic Prediction on Social Media during Sudden Disaster Events
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| author | Liu, Mengzhu Zhu, Zhengqiu Ai, Chuan Gao, Chen Li, Xinghong He, Lingnan Lai, Kaisheng Chen, Yingfeng Lu, Xin Li, Yong Yin, Quanjun |
| author_facet | Liu, Mengzhu Zhu, Zhengqiu Ai, Chuan Gao, Chen Li, Xinghong He, Lingnan Lai, Kaisheng Chen, Yingfeng Lu, Xin Li, Yong Yin, Quanjun |
| contents | During sudden disaster events, accurately predicting public panic sentiment on social media is crucial for proactive governance and crisis management. Current efforts on this problem face three main challenges: lack of finely annotated data hinders emotion prediction studies, unmodeled risk perception causes prediction inaccuracies, and insufficient interpretability of panic formation mechanisms. We address these issues by proposing a Psychology-driven generative Agent framework (PsychoAgent) for explainable panic prediction based on emotion arousal theory. Specifically, we first construct a fine-grained open panic emotion dataset (namely COPE) via human-large language models (LLMs) collaboration to mitigate semantic bias. Then, we develop a framework integrating cross-domain heterogeneous data grounded in psychological mechanisms to model risk perception and cognitive differences in emotion generation. To enhance interpretability, we design an LLM-based role-playing agent that simulates individual psychological chains through dedicatedly designed prompts. Experimental results on our annotated dataset show that PsychoAgent improves panic emotion prediction performance by 12.6% to 21.7% compared to baseline models. Furthermore, the explainability and generalization of our approach is validated. Crucially, this represents a paradigm shift from opaque "data-driven fitting" to transparent "role-based simulation with mechanistic interpretation" for panic emotion prediction during emergencies. Our implementation is publicly available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PsychoAgent-19DD. |
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| spellingShingle | Psychology-driven LLM Agents for Explainable Panic Prediction on Social Media during Sudden Disaster Events Liu, Mengzhu Zhu, Zhengqiu Ai, Chuan Gao, Chen Li, Xinghong He, Lingnan Lai, Kaisheng Chen, Yingfeng Lu, Xin Li, Yong Yin, Quanjun Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society During sudden disaster events, accurately predicting public panic sentiment on social media is crucial for proactive governance and crisis management. Current efforts on this problem face three main challenges: lack of finely annotated data hinders emotion prediction studies, unmodeled risk perception causes prediction inaccuracies, and insufficient interpretability of panic formation mechanisms. We address these issues by proposing a Psychology-driven generative Agent framework (PsychoAgent) for explainable panic prediction based on emotion arousal theory. Specifically, we first construct a fine-grained open panic emotion dataset (namely COPE) via human-large language models (LLMs) collaboration to mitigate semantic bias. Then, we develop a framework integrating cross-domain heterogeneous data grounded in psychological mechanisms to model risk perception and cognitive differences in emotion generation. To enhance interpretability, we design an LLM-based role-playing agent that simulates individual psychological chains through dedicatedly designed prompts. Experimental results on our annotated dataset show that PsychoAgent improves panic emotion prediction performance by 12.6% to 21.7% compared to baseline models. Furthermore, the explainability and generalization of our approach is validated. Crucially, this represents a paradigm shift from opaque "data-driven fitting" to transparent "role-based simulation with mechanistic interpretation" for panic emotion prediction during emergencies. Our implementation is publicly available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PsychoAgent-19DD. |
| title | Psychology-driven LLM Agents for Explainable Panic Prediction on Social Media during Sudden Disaster Events |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16455 |