Just because his empathy requires effort does NOT mean it is poor. Your theory, by focusing on the situation rather than personality, at least avoids the funda

Just because his empathy requires effort does NOT mean it is poor. Your theory, by focusing on the situation rather than personality, at least avoids the fundamental attribution error. Your model however fails for outliers; not everyone can be modelled as "like-me". Sociopaths, borderline personality disorders, senility: there's a long list of ways in which people are different enough that simple unconscious models will not be accurate.