Are you a pretty good judge of character? Can you tell when someone is being genuine or full of shit?

Yep.Do I always follow my feelings? Nope.Has that got me into trouble.Yes.Do I like trouble?No.Will I do it again? Maybe…

Oh absolutely. That and I have a very accurate gut.

I am very perceptive and can see right through people, even total strangers. I can see when people are honest or crooked, sincere or insincere, and genuine or phony, by nuances in their behavior, the tone of their voice, their eyes and other facial expressions, by what they say and how they say it, etc. I’m a very sensitive person, sometimes to a fault.

I have taken many a swings and missed….I would love to join you @Jude and think past experience and/or common sense keeps you out of harms way…but I am always one to say…“hit the throttle….we are going to go for a ride!!” I otherwise would have passed on!! Most great times indeed and certainly not to be passed up! ;)

I don’t really know is my best answer. I sort of take a “hope for the best and expect the worst” approach in my relationships. So, in my interactions – my bullshit meter often goes off and is eventually proven right…but I’ll ignore it until it’s a screaming siren in the end. But who can say whether or not it’s all just self-fulfilling prophecy, in the end…

Don’t we all until we are proven wrong?

I do what @iamthemob does.

I’m with the mob. I always take people at face value, until they give me a good reason not to… even when my gut says otherwise.

Used to think I was but I’ve certainly misjudged a few friends and co-workers along the way. At my deepest core, I’m pretty naive.

I think @psychocandy hit the nail on the head. Don’t we all feel that way? I know I like to think that I’m a good judge of character, and I often am. I’ve been burned enough times in my life to know that it isn’t with 100% accuracy. Or at the very least, I don’t always listen to my gut when it comes to people. I tend to give everyone a chance, to a fault.

I assume genuineness until proven full of shit.

I have little faith in my ability to make an accurate assessment of people’s personalities until I know them very well. My gut is far too strongly influenced by whether I am feeling paranoid, wishful, snobbish, lonely, courageous, etc.

I’m very much like everyone above. I am open and accepting, and it is very disturbing to me to find out that some aren’t what they pretend to be. My feelings often overtake any reasonable assessment of an individual—good or bad. I’m about as naive as they come.

We call that a “gut feeling” in the police business. and yes, you are correct. some people have a 6th sense, that sends out a red flag to them, when they just know a person is lieing or guilty of something else.

I have had this feeling for many years in uniform. because of this 6th sense, i was able to make many arrests of the bad guys.

I think I’m a pretty good judge of character. I’ve only been really surprised a couple of times in my life, and those people were pretty good liars.

Certainly am, a circle of friends who are utterly bereft of any bullshit is testament to that. Sniffs air for any surplus undesirable excrement…