When Cognitive Graphs Meet LLMs: BDEI Cognitive Pathways for Panic Emotional Arousal Prediction
Researchers have developed a new framework called PanicCognitivePath (PCP) to improve the prediction of emotional arousal timing before panic attacks. PCP addresses limitations in existing methods by explicitly modeling the appraisal emotion theory, which links simultaneous evaluation across multiple threat dimensions to emotional arousal. The framework introduces a unified risk metric and an explicit Emotion node within a Belief-Desire-Emotion-Intention (BDEI) pathway, confining the LLM's role to parameter estimation to mitigate hallucinations. Experiments on data from Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that PCP enhanced arousal timing accuracy by 10.68% compared to baseline methods. AI
