There’s a reason we return home from a social event and mentally review everything we could have possibly done wrong. From past experience, we know that there are things we may have done “wrong” socially that we missed. And because we also “base our interpretations on the most recently supplied social information”—if the current message we’re getting is negative (like, they haven’t responded to our text messages saying we had a good time) we assume the status of the relationship is negative.
