https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/acute-stress-before-shooting 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/acute-stress-before-shootingNo study answers this yet. The only experiment on the subject tried and did not succeed, and admits it. Twenty-two Turkish archers aged 11 to 14 shot ten arrows at 18 metres before and after the arithmetic part of a social stress test for children: the score does not change and neither does balance on the plate, but heart rate does not change either, 104.6 beats per minute before and 105.6 after, and the authors write that they failed to produce the stress they intended. The null result therefore shows that the task moved nothing, not that stress before the shot does not matter, and the question remains untested. The most interesting figure in the same study is a different one: those most afraid of the signs of their own anxiety, especially in front of others, shoot worse, with a correlation of -0.63 after the task and of -0.45 already before it.claim:stress-acuto-pre-tiro:revision:2026-07-04:2Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/acute-stress-before-shootingclaim:stress-acuto-pre-tiro:new_claim:2026-06-06:non_studiatoSat, 06 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT