This research aims at studying people’s emotional reactions and their social attitude towards deaf persons, relative to familiarity their with deafness. 77 subjects were interviewed based on measurement scales devised by Louvet and Rohmer (2000, 2004, 2006). The subjects with the least contact with deaf persons had the most negative emotional reactions. But, the social judgment of persons familiar with deafness is rather negative when compared to other participants. People most familiar with deafness seemed to think the handicap as a deficiency difficult to overcome. Finally, the group with occasional contacts had the most positive evaluative reactions. Those subjects seemed to consider deafness as a problem to be mitigated and overcome.