Online interracial interactions : internet communication fosters behavioral anxiety in different race dyads for European Americans

European-American identified students (N =22) participated in an in-lab study where they\ud chatted online about a race-related topic with a fictitious African-American identified or\ud European-American-identified partner. Consistent with previous research on face-to-face\ud interpersonal interactions, participants in the same-race condition self-reported higher\ud ratings of comfort with their interaction partner. There were no differences between\ud independent coders??? ratings of participants??? non-verbal anxiety in the same race and\ud different race conditions. Future research is needed to better understand why participants\ud were significantly more comfortable with their same race partner even while discussing\ud the presumably stressful topic of race