A few of the negative buckets into which I sort people, in my mind:

— Ah, okay, this person doesn’t bother to say true stuff (and instead says e.g. useful or satisfying stuff)

— Ah, okay, this person indulges in meanness

— Ah, okay, this person is trying to say true stuff, but they don’t get that Other People Are Different, For Real (so they e.g. confidently make wrong universalizing statements about all people, “honestly” generalizing from their own idiosyncratic experience)

— Ah, okay, this person is unaware (or unable to reliably remember) that there’s often a difference between how things SEEM, to them, and how they actually ARE

— Ah, okay, this person implicitly trusts their society and peers and the memes they were force-fed in childhood without much question

— Ah, okay, this person would have participated in witch burnings

— Ah, okay, this person would have worked at Azkaban and refused to accept responsibility for their crucial-cog contribution to atrocity because they were just doing their job and THEY didn’t torture anyone

EDIT: I guess these are more like tags than buckets b/c lots of people have multiple.

A question for you: What signs do you look for that help you identify people who are likely to be untrustworthy or who are likely to hurt you if they become your close friend or partner? Spencer Greenberg’s question

They cannot tell the difference between how things seem, to them, versus how things actually are. They do not distinguish between their interpretations/projections and their actual observations. Their summaries lack split-and-commit nature, and they make leaps-to-conclusions without even being aware that they are leaping. (All of the above is a single trait; I'm triangulating it with many words.) These are the people who burn witches.