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However, practical vehicular crowdsensing processes face dual challenges of skewed spatial distributions of vehicles and inadequate data quality guidance. These issues cause sensing redundancy in high-participation areas (HPAs) and coverage deficits in low-participation areas (LPAs), while also leading to unstable data quality. Given that participants\u2019 decisions are profoundly influenced by bounded rationality and psychological preferences, this paper proposes a collaborative incentive mechanism integrating behavioral economics and psychology (BEP-IM) to drive sustained spatial coverage and proactive sensing shaping. First, to mitigate coverage deficits in LPA, a reference-dependent two-sided selection and bidding strategy (RD-TSB) is designed to guide participants toward LPA via a reference-driven utility evaluation. Concurrently, a loss-aversion-based sustained incentive strategy (LA-RPI) is introduced to enhance their sustained participation within LPAs by amplifying loss perception. Furthermore, to overcome weak data quality constraints, an operant conditioning-based proactive sensing shaping strategy (OC-SFQ) is constructed, utilizing a closed-loop mechanism of relative improvement, variable-ratio reinforcement, and association updating to drive participants to output high-quality data. 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