ABSTRACT
Emotional intersubjectivity is the interactional appropriation of another's emotionality such that one feels one's way into the feelings and intentional feeling states of the other. Emotional intersubjectivity refers to the cognitive and emotional alignment of selves in a common field of emotional experience. Emotional intersubjectivity describes the forms that these interpretations of the other's emotionality take and their consequences for action. The emotional understanding and interpretation of another that emerge from the intersubjectively shared emotional situation may be complete or partial, erroneous or correct, suspected or pretended, spurious, reciprocal, or one-sided. Lived, or emotional, understanding is to be contrasted to purely cognitive understanding, which is devoid of feeling and emotionality. Two ideal-typical forms of understanding can be distinguished: emotional and cognitive. G. H. Mead's principle of sociality suggests that in reflective social conduct the self as a social object enters the field of adjustment on the same basis as other objects.
