[The interpersonal attitude change in the cooperative situation: the cooperation of the seeing with the blind]

This study was conducted to examine the change of interpersonal attitudes of the seeing and the blind through the cooperative task. Subjects were 14 pairs of the seeing and the blind. The seeing were college students and high school students whose ages were from 17 to 24. The blind were students of blind schools whose ages were from 17 to 27. Each pair cooperated in a task of matching 40 category names (tree, color, etc.) written in usual letters with 40 object names (pine, red, etc.) written in braille. The main results were as follows: (1) Before the task the attitudes of the seeing to their "partners" and to "the blind" were more negative than those of the blind to their "partners" and to "the seeing". (2) The attitudes of the seeing to their "partners" and to "the blind" were more positive after the task than before.