120 elementary school pupils in a lower-class neighborhood were tested in a situation providing for measures of the occurrence and magnitude of a form of psychopathic behavior (stealing) and of temporal orientation. The 49 Ss who stole money from the E during her brief absence chose fewer temporal concepts and told stories with shorter time durations than the nonstealers. This relationship between stealing and time orientation was uninfluenced by race, sex, age, IQ, academic achievement, or school and home behavior problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)