Associative Responses to Double Entendre Drug Words

Abstract

Discrete word associations to double entendre drug words and double entendre aggression words were studied in a drug addict group and a college student group. In addition, drug usage, drug attitudes, social knowledge of drugs, and factual knowledge of drugs were measured by use of a drug-behavior inventory. Findings indicated that addicts and students differed in associative responses to drug stimuli but not in associations to aggression stimuli. Drug usage, drug attitudes, and social knowledge of drugs correlated with free associative drug responses in most groups (i.e., addicts, students, males, females, Blacks, and Caucasians). In addition, a score reflecting variety of drug usage correlated positively with free associative aggression responses within the drug addict group, but correlated negatively with aggression responses within the college student group.