Sadomasochism, a Stroop test, and a dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Sadomasochism, a Stroop test, and a dorsolateral prefrontal cortex figure prominently, almost exclusively, in the Huffington Post’s report about the highlights of the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, along with a Dance of Souls:

Called the “Dance of Souls,” this ritual involves people getting temporary skin piercings, through which hooks attached to ropes are placed. The ropes of one person are connected to those on others in the group or to a fixed object and are pulled taut as music or drums are played. These events are also known as “energy pulls” and are seen as primarily spiritual, not sexual, [Northern Illinois University’s Brad] Sagarin [pictured here] told Live Science.

BONUS: Web  site for the conference.

BONUS: Energy pulls [with lots of photos of partly naked people attached to each other by ropes and skin-piercing hooks].

BONUS: Dance of Souls for beginners.

BONUS: A Dance of Souls at the Southwest Leather Conference.