The studies to be described take as their point of departure the investigations of Asch on modification of judgments under group pressure in face-to-face situations. Asch has reported that naive subjects (Ss) yielded approximately one-third of the time to the erroneous judgments of a tutored majority in matching the length of comparison lines with a standard line. The Ss who yielded early in the line series tended to continue to yield throughout, while Ss who were independent of the announced judgments of the tutored majority, tended to continue independent throughout. The purpose of the present studies is to answer the question: Are the consistencies in yielding or not yielding specific to the situation studied, i.e., judgment of lines, or do they extend beyond it? Is such consistency episodic or situationally determined, or is it a consequence of relatively settled modes of orientation? 88 student nurses were observed in each of several Asch-type situations, in each of which they had to make a choice between being independent or conforming to the judgments of three accomplices who were tutored by the experimenter to make erroneous judgments. Results showed that when comparisons are possible, present findings confirm those of Asch. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)