Tallying the potential actions each participant listed, we found support for the broadening hypothesis, which is illustrated in Figure 9.2 Participants in the two positive emotion conditions (joy and contentment) identified significantly more thing that they would like to do right then relative to those in the two negative emotion conditions (fear and anger) and relative to those in the neutral control condition. Those in the two negative emotion conditions also named significantly fewer things than those in the neutral control condition (Fredrickson & Branigan, 2001).