The Dissenter

My name is Ricardo Lopes, and I’m from Portugal. Thank you for visiting my podcast. Over the past few years, I have conducted and released more than 900 interviews and talks with experts and academics from a variety of areas and disciplines, ranging from the Arts and Philosophy to the Social Sciences and Biology. You will certainly find a subject of your interest covered here. New interviews are released on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

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Every guest on The Dissenter

1078 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Curtis Marean

   #322 Curtis Marean: Zooarchaeology, Human Origins And Evolution · Apr 2020

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   Cécile Sarabian

   #511 Cécile Sarabian: The Evolution of Disgust and Hygiene, and Conservation · Aug 2021

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   César Marín

   #1318 César Marín: Multilevel Selection in Evolutionary Biology · Oct 2026

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   Dale Greenwalt

   #917 Dale Greenwalt - Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils · Mar 2024

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   Dale Purves

   #65 Dale Purves: How Perception and Cognition Work · May 2019

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   Dan McAdams

   #365 Dan McAdams: The Psychology of Donald Trump · Sep 2020

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   Dan Weijers

   #636 Dan Weijers: The Philosophy of Wellbeing and Happiness · Jun 2022

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   Dan Zahavi

   #1224 Dan Zahavi - Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology · Mar 2026

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   Daniel Bell

   #497 Daniel Bell - Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World · Jul 2021

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    Daniel Conroy-Beam

    #1090 Daniel Conroy-Beam: How the Manosphere Misuses Evolutionary Psychology · 2 episodes

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    Daniel Fessler

    #1125 Daniel Fessler: Physical Formidability, Male Muscularity, Pathogen-Avoidance & More · Jul 2025

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    Daniel Glass

    #235 RoundTable 1: What is PsychTable? ft. Daniel Glass & Niruban Balachandran · Sep 2019

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    Daniel Hoyer

    #1057 Daniel Hoyer: Cliodynamics, Inequality, Elite Overproduction, and Revolution · 2 episodes

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    Daniel Kreiss

    #603 Daniel Kreiss: Digital Media, Political Campaigns, Journalism, and Partisan Identity · Mar 2022

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    Daniel Kruger

    #383 Daniel Kruger: Life History Theory, Time Perspective, and Health · Oct 2020

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    Daniel Nettle

    #166 Daniel Nettle: The Evolution of Personality, Individual Variation And Behavioral Flexibility · Apr 2019

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    Daniel Silverman

    #1128 Daniel Silverman: Why People Believe Misinformation in War · Jul 2025

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    Daniel Sznycer

    #225 Daniel Sznycer: The Evolutionary Psychology of Emotions · Sep 2019

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    Daniel Williams

    #1065 Daniel Williams: Is the Science of Misinformation Reliable? · 2 episodes

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    Daniela Rodrigues

    #1122 Daniela Rodrigues: Communication in Apes and Humans, and the Cognitive Foundations of Language · Jul 2025

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    Darcia Narvaez

    #899 Darcia Narvaez & Gay Bradshaw: The Evolved Nest · 2 episodes

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    Dario Maestripieri

    #632 Dario Maestripieri: Human Nature, Individual Differences, Knowledge, and Consilience · May 2022

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    David Bjorklund

    #484 David Bjorklund: How Children Invented Humanity: The Role of Development in Human Evolution · 2 episodes

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    David Calnitsky

    #1228 David Calnitsky: Basic Income, Poverty, and Socialism · Mar 2026

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    David Cooper

    #1173 David Cooper: Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge · Nov 2025

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    David F. Lancy

    #37 David F. Lancy: Children's Play and Learning in Traditional and WEIRD Societies · Mar 2019

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    David Gorski

    #66 David Gorski: Science-Based Medicine, Fighting Quackery · May 2019

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    David Henshall

    #1050 David Henshall - Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators · Jan 2025

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    David Lahti

    #430 David Lahti: Philosophy of Biology, Complex Traits, and Evolutionary Ethics · Feb 2021

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    David Lundberg-Kenrick
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    David M. G. Lewis

    #544 David M. G. Lewis: Evolution, Personality, Friendships, and Physical Attraction · Nov 2021

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    David Pietraszewski

    #936 David Pietraszewski: Alliances, Intergroup Conflict, Politics, and the Science of Psychology · 2 episodes

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    David Zaruk

    #144 David Zaruk: Environmentalism, The EU, and SlimeGate · Feb 2019

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    Deborah Carr

    #780 Deborah Carr: Obesity, Disability, Healthcare, and Aging in America · May 2023

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    Deena Emera

    #1121 Deena Emera: A Brief History of the Female Body · Jul 2025

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    Denis Tatone

    #708 Denis Tatone: Interpreting Giving and Taking Actions, and the Development of Prosociality · Nov 2022

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    Derek Elliott

    #137 Derek Elliott: Beyond Enlightenment, Reason, Free Will, Self-deception, and Modularity · Feb 2019

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    Diane Halpern

    #112 Diane Halpern: Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Critical Thinking, and Creativity · Jul 2019

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    Diane O'Leary

    #863 Diane O'Leary: Philosophy, Medicine, Mind-Body Dualism, and Psychiatry · Nov 2023

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    Dick Swaab

    #321 Dick Swaab: The Neuroscience of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation · Apr 2020

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