Nicholas Spanos tried to distinguish the difference between common beliefs about hypnosis and what was actually occurring.
10 Facts About Nicholas Spanos
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Nicholas Spanos practiced at Medfield State Hospital and with Boston Psychological Associates before joining the Department of Psychology at Carleton in 1975.
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Nicholas Spanos wrote 183 journal articles and 19 chapters for textbooks during his career there.
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Nicholas Spanos argued persistently and demonstrated in over 250 experimental studies that hypnotic acts are strongly influenced by the definition of the contexts in which they occur as well as by the cognitive interpretation of the person hypnotized.
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Nicholas Spanos argued against Hilgard's belief that hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness or a "special" or dissociated state of consciousness.
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Nicholas Spanos argued that many of the actions performed under hypnosis can be simply explained by reference to social psychological and cognitive hypotheses.
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Nicholas Spanos alleged that there are two reasons why people misconstrue their state of consciousness as hypnosis.
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Nicholas Spanos argued that the hypnotist asks each person two connected requests.
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Nicholas Spanos claimed that this was due to the subjects wanting to be viewed as a great hypnotic subject.
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Nicholas Spanos contributed to the study of dissociative identity disorder through his proposal of the sociocognitive model.