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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.

Sec. Personality and Social Psychology

Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1544589

Research on Crime Motivation Identification and Quantitative Analysis Methods Based on EEG Signals

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  • Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, China

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    Understanding and quantifying crime motivation is essential for developing effective interventions in criminology and psychology. This research, closely aligned with quantitative psychology and measurement, presents a novel approach to identifying and analyzing crime motivations using EEG signals. Traditional methods often fail to capture the intricate interplay of individual, social, and environmental factors due to data sparsity and the absence of real-time adaptability. In this study, we introduce the Hierarchical Crime Motivation Network (HCM-Net), a multi-layered framework that integrates EEG signal analysis with social and temporal modeling. HCM-Net employs neural network-based individual feature encoders, graph neural networks for social interaction analysis, and temporal predictors to capture the evolution of motivations. To enhance practical applicability, the Dynamic Risk-Adaptive Strategy (DRAS) complements HCM-Net by incorporating real-time adaptation, scenario-based simulations, and targeted interventions. This framework addresses challenges like ethical considerations and interpretability by employing Shapley values for feature attribution and bias mitigation techniques. Experiments with EEG datasets demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed methods in classifying crime motivations and identifying high-risk individuals compared to state-of-the-art techniques. These findings highlight the potential of integrating EEG analysis with advanced computational methods in crime prevention and psychological research.

    Keywords: Crime motivation, EEG signals, hierarchical modeling, social networks, Quantitative Psychology

    Received: 16 Dec 2024; Accepted: 26 Feb 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Ma. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Dongli Ma, Henan University of Urban Construction, Pingdingshan, China

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