The relationship between the personality characteristic of aggression and word associations was investigated. Extreme groups of 20 aggressive (A) and 20 non-aggressive (NA) Ss were selected from a pool of 180 on the basis of their scores on four subscales of the Buss-Durkee Hostility-Guilt Inventory and were subsequently administered a word association test. The test contained neutral stimulus items as well as 12 homonyms, which had both an A and NA meaning. Results showed that A Ss exceeded the NA Ss in the aggressive content of their associations to the homonyms. There was no difference, however, in the aggressive content of the A and NA Ss' responses to the neutral stimuli. The results were interpreted as support for the theoretical position that aggression is a response to specific situational cues.