Lisa Luther studied psychology with minors in neuroanatomy and intercultural psychology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Université de Toulouse le Mirail (France), with an early focus on the interaction between attention and emotion in their cultural context. She worked as a research assistant in the Neuronal Oscillations Lab of Ole Jensen, Donders Institute (Netherlands), investigating neural mechanisms of voluntary attention. She continued her doctoral research at the Donders Institute, exploring physiological and psychological reactions to affective images, using methods like EEG, motoric, and hormonal indicators. In 2020 she joined the Language Lab at the FU Berlin as scientific researcher, leading the empirical studies of the DFG project “Children and Youth Literature Sentiment Analysis” (CHYLSA). Her current research examines children’s emotional responses to stories with and without poetic justice, comparing cultural differences in narrative perception between participants from Germany and from France.