ABSTRACT
Rita Carter is a science writer who has written a general introduction to the idea of multiple selves and, in addition, has developed some interesting hypotheses and a set of exercises in order to explore our multiple selves. Carter accepts the existence of multiple selves, defined as others such as A. Angyal and J. Rowan have defined them, but she introduced the division of multiple selves into major and minor selves and a number of fragmentary micros. A major is a "fully fleshed out character with thoughts, desires, intentions, emotions, ambitions and beliefs". Minors are less complex than majors and come out in particular situations. Carter next goes on to describe various possibilities for multiple selves: A single major, a double major, a major plus a minor, several majors and minors and multiple minors. Carter bases her assessment of our multiple selves using the Big 5 personality dimensions and provides eight traits for each dimension.
