{"id":31335,"date":"2026-10-23T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kriyasya.com\/pulse\/post-event-worry-decoder-clark-wells-post-mortem-rumination\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:03:14","slug":"post-event-worry-decoder-clark-wells-post-mortem-rumination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kriyasya.com\/pulse\/post-event-worry-decoder-clark-wells-post-mortem-rumination\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Event Worry Decoder: Clark & Wells’s Post-Event Processing and Memory Distortion in Social Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Returning home from a dinner party, professional networking event, or job interview frequently initiates an agonizing internal ritual known clinically as “post-event processing” (PEP) or the post-mortem cringe. The anxious mind replays a single awkward sentence or pause on endless loop, inflating it into an unmitigated social disaster. Grounded in David Clark and Adrian Wells’s cognitive model of social anxiety (1995), Stanley Rachman’s memory distortion research (2000), and Aaron Beck’s cognitive restructuring, post-event memory is severely biased toward subjective embarrassment. The Post-Event Worry Decoder Tool<\/strong> guides you through an objective evidence audit to decode distorted memories, see the full picture, and terminate the replay loop.<\/p>\n