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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   Fernanda Ferreira

   #942 Fernanda Ferreira: Linguistics, Fluency, Speech Disfluencies, and Comprehension · May 2024

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   Filipe Nobre Faria

   #728 Filipe Nobre Faria: The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism · 2 episodes

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   Francesca Bellazzi

   #1023 Francesca Bellazzi: Biochemical Kinds and Functions, Genes, and Virtue Ethics · Nov 2024

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   Francesca Luberti

   #625 Francesca Luberti: The Relationship Between Mating Strategies and Socio-political Orientation · May 2022

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   Francesca Righetti

   #749 Francesca Righetti: The Psychology of Close Relationships · Feb 2023

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   Francesca Rossi

   #1281 Francesca Rossi: The Benefits and Risks of AI · Jul 2026

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   Frank Keil

   #856 Frank Keil: The Development of Causal Thinking, Explanation, and the Institution of Science · Nov 2023

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   Françoise Baylis

   #105 Françoise Baylis: The Ethics of CRISPR-cas9 Gene Editing Technology · Jun 2019

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   Frederick Coolidge

   #418 Frederick Coolidge: Neuropsychology, Cognitive Archaeology, and Human Evolution · Jan 2021

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    Frederick Crews

    #107 Frederick Crews: Why Freud is a Fraud · Jul 2019

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    Frederick Toates

    #808 Frederick Toates: Understanding Sexual Serial Killing · Jul 2023

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    Gabriel Zamosc-Regueros

    #1169 Gabriel Zamosc-Regueros - Nietzsche's Ideals: Sovereignty, Wholeness, and Becoming What One Is · Oct 2025

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    Gabrielle Principe

    #465 Gabrielle Principe: Memory Development, False Memories, and Eyewitnesses · May 2021

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    Gareth Leng

    #816 Gareth Leng - The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science · Aug 2023

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    Gay Bradshaw
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    George Boss

    #1310 George Boss: Marx and the Politics of Need · Sep 2026

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    George Graham
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    George Sher

    #604 George Sher - A Wild West of the Mind; The Morality of Nasty Thoughts · Mar 2022

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    George Yancey

    #473 George Yancey: Racism in the US, and Anti-Christian Hostility · May 2021

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    George Zarkadakis

    #596 George Zarkadakis - Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines · Mar 2022

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    Gerard Saucier

    #157 Gerard Saucier: Personality, The Big Five, The Big Six, and The Big Two · Mar 2019

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    Ghristopher Kavanagh

    #435 Ghristopher Kavanagh: Religion, Rituals, Belief in Japanese Society, and WEIRD Psychology · Feb 2021

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    Gil Greengross

    #777 Gil Greengross: The Psychology of Humor, Laughter, and Comedians · May 2023

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    Gilbert Herdt

    #678 Gilbert Herdt: The Anthropology of Sexual Orientation · Sep 2022

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    Gillian Forrester

    #782 Gillian Forrester: The Evolution of Handedness, Cerebral Lateralization, and Language · May 2023

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    Giovanni Rolla

    #1185 Giovanni Rolla: Enactivism, Ecological Psychology, and Embodied Cognition · Dec 2025

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    Giuliana Spadaro

    #453 Giuliana Spadaro: Trust, Cooperation Between Strangers, and the Bystander Effect · Apr 2021

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    Gordon Burghardt

    #397 Gordon Burghardt: The Evolution And Function of Play · Nov 2020

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    Gordon Gallup

    #409 Gordon Gallup: Orgasm, Sperm Competition, Mating Strategies, Self-Recognition, and Religion · Dec 2020

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    Gordon Ingram

    #934 Gordon Ingram: Adolescent Use of New Media and Internet Technologies · 2 episodes

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    Gregory Forth

    #729 Gregory Forth - Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid · Jan 2023

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    Gregory Radick

    #896 Gregory Radick - Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology · Feb 2024

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    Gregory Retallack

    #975 Gregory Retallack: Paleopedology, and the Link Between Life and the Soil · Aug 2024

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    Gustavo Carlo

    #188 Gustavo Carlo: Prosocial And Moral Development In Children And Adolescents · Jun 2019

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    Guy Madison

    #353 Guy Madison: The Psychology of Music · Aug 2020

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    Gwendolyn Dolske

    #952 Gwendolyn Dolske: Existentialism, Feminism, and Simone de Beauvoir · Jun 2024

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    Gül Salali

    #1142 Gül Salali: Social Dynamics, Culture, Mental Health and Physical Health in Hunter-Gatherers · Aug 2025

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    Günter Wagner

    #572 Günter Wagner: Gene Regulation, Evolutionary Novelties, and the Evolution of Pregnancy · Jan 2022

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    H. Clark Barrett

    #351 H. Clark Barrett: Consciousness, Moral Judgment, and Cross-cultural Studies · 2 episodes

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    Hal Arkes

    #99 Hal Arkes: Biases, Heuritics, and Decision-Making · Jun 2019

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