postr/Stutter_remissionMarch 30, 2026

This might be one of the best social experiments. How does this apply to stuttering?

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This might be one of the best social experiments. How does this apply to stuttering? # YT video: [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LkAU09YCqyU](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LkAU09YCqyU) Stuttering can be understood as the product of an interaction between neurobiological vulnerability and anticipatory processes. Affective conditioned cues may bias approach–avoidance decisions via striatal mechanisms, contributing to a recurrent stuttering cycle. Over time, repeated avoidance and unsuccessful speech attempts may foster learned helplessness, while cue–response associations become progressively strengthened and more readily triggered, allowing previously neutral cues to acquire stuttering-related significance. Once this loop is established, it may become increasingly resistant to change, and extinction of the conditioned cue may be difficult to achieve through conventional speech techniques alone. Most SLPs and people who stutter lack knowledge in motivational learning and behavioral theory in order to deal with extinguishing such conditioning

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience

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Anticipating StutteringStress & Fight/FlightHelplessness & Agency