*6.2.1 Spanos' socio-cognitive theory*

Hypnosis is not an altered state of consciousness. Attitudes, beliefs, imaginings, attributions and expectancies form hypnotic experience and outcome depending of the interpretation of the suggestions without active planning and effort. The sociocognitive behavioral model is used together with contemporary cognitivebehavioral psychotherapies focusing the effects of thoughts, beliefs, and imaginings on behavior and emotion.
