In psychology they have something called ‘The Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal‘ which goes roughly like this:
“Performance increases with arousal but only to a certain point: when levels of arousal become too high, performance will decrease.”
‘Arousal’ doesn’t mean sexual arousal, you dirty-minded buffoons, so stop sniggering. ‘Arousal’ means ‘Cognitive Arousal’ and could also be taken to [...]