关键词: 移情, 信息功能, 动机功能, 观点采择, 德育

Abstract: For empathy has motivation function and information function on prosocial behavior, it has always been considered a significant inhibitory effect on prosocial behavior in the study of psychology. Generally, great importance has been attached to moral cognition education, while moral emotion education has been ignored during moral education in colleges and universities, which lead to college students general lack of empathy. Using the theory of the function of empathy for reference, colleges and universities should cultivate and improve students ability of empathy in the process of moral education. On the one hand, experiencing teaching in moral education should be strengthened to stimulate moral motivation; on the other hand, students ability of perspective taking should be improved to activate moral cognition.

Key words: empathy, information function of empathy, motivation function of empathy, perspective taking, moral education