The results of two separate studies are reported. In the first, 30 undergraduate male subjects, designated high-oral on the basis of the number of oral and dependent Rorschach responses provided, were individually paired with 30 loworal subjects, and were asked to reach a consensus regarding a neutral topic on which they had previously disagreed. In contrast to earlier studies on orality and group conformity, the low-oral subjects deferred to the judgment of the high-oral subjects in 20 out of 30 dyads, X 2 (1,JV = 30) = 3.33,p < .10. A replication of the original study on a new sample of 20 high-oral and 20 low-oral subjects, confirmed our original findings (binomial test, p = .02).X 2 (1,JV= 30) One of the central tenets of psychoanalytic theory is the belief that behavior is driven by a primary set of needs that operate across a variety of situations. Freud (1908) observed that "one very often meets a type of character in which certain traits are very strongly marked, while at the same time one's attention is arrested by the behavior of these persons in regard to a certain bodily function" (p. 169). Not only does Freud make explicit his belief that people are characterized by distinctive personality constellations -or character typesbut he also suggests that these types are tied to bodily functions and body organs. The experiment reported in this article is part of a series of investigations of the interpersonal characteristics of one such personality type -the oral character. Previous studies have documented the ability of those with oral personality traits to perceive accurately strangers and roommates (Masling, Johnson, & Saturansky, 1974) as well as therapists (Masling,