The Katz and Braley study also found that African-Americans and whites view the traits that they identify each other with as threatening, interracial communication between the two is likely to be "hesitant, reserved, and concealing".
卡茨和布罗利的研究结果也表明美国黑人和白人把他们互相认同的性格特征视为是具有威胁性的，这两个种族间的交流可能是“犹疑，有所保留，有所隐藏的”。