sentences:  Spanos’ findings were to contribute to the view that the hypnotic state did not exist at all, and that the behaviors exhibited by those individuals are in fact due to their being “highly motivated”.Spanos also contributed to the study of dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder) through his proposal of the sociocognitive model.He proposed that exhibiting multiple identities is a social role based upon the norms of a given culture.