https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/individual-optimal-arousal Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/individual-optimal-arousalOn archers the idea rests on little: three people measured over a season, alongside eight who describe themselves. Three top Brazilian archers, followed for a whole season, have optimal zones that differ from one another: at 70 metres, on an arousal scale from 1 to 9, the first sits between 4.7 and 5.9, the second between 5.0 and 6.6 and the third between 6.1 and 7.15, and in none of the three do the extreme values go with the best ends. The zone guarantees nothing, though: even inside it, each archer goes on shooting mediocre ends, and the zone itself changes from one distance to another. The archers' own words point the same way: interviewed before Atlanta 1996, the eight Italian Olympians describe opposite ideal states, since one looks for calm, knowing that if he shoots aggressively his arrows go everywhere, and another gets himself charged by taking on a duel with the target. These are self-descriptions, though, with no score. The rest is background: single-archer cases, an experiment that looked for a level suiting everyone and did not find one, and group tendencies that say only that more energy does not mean a better shot. Nobody has yet tested whether deliberately getting back into one's own zone raises the score.claim:attivazione-ideale-individuale:revision:2026-07-30:3Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/individual-optimal-arousalclaim:attivazione-ideale-individuale:new_claim:2026-06-03:riportatoWed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT