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

1079 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Steven Gangestad

   #460 Steven Gangestad: Ovulatory shifts, physical attractiveness, and psychological adaptations · Apr 2021

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   Steven Hales

   #170 Steven Hales: Philosophy of Luck, Relativism and Perspectivism, And Evolutionary Psychology · Apr 2019

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   Steven Heine

   #1072 Steven Heine: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times · 2 episodes

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   Steven Hollon

   #1233 Steven Hollon: A Clinical and Evolutionary Approach to Depression · Mar 2026

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   Steven Neuberg

   #93 Steven Neuberg: The Evolutionary Bases of Stereotypes and Prejudices · Jun 2019

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   Steven Sloman

   #1227 Steven Sloman - The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray · Mar 2026

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   Stijn Vanheule

   #1283 Stijn Vanheule: Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy · Jul 2026

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   Sue Everatt

   #7 Sue Everatt: The Venus Project, and a Resource-Based Economy | Projeto Venus · Feb 2019

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   Summer Mengelkoch

   #664 Summer Mengelkoch: Early Life Stressors, Life History, Physiology, and Decision-Making · Aug 2022

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    Susan Charles

    #977 Susan Charles: How Well-Being Varies Across the Lifespan · Aug 2024

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    Susan Fiske

    #595 Susan Fiske: Social Categorization, Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination · Mar 2022

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    Susan Pinker

    #48 Susan Pinker: The Sexual Paradox and The Village Effect · Apr 2019

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    Susanna Schellenberg

    #829 Susanna Schellenberg - The Unity of Perception: Content, Consciousness, Evidence · Sep 2023

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    Susie Gronski

    #1087 Susie Gronski: Men's Sexual Health · Apr 2025

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    Suthan Krishnarajan

    #906 Suthan Krishnarajan: Regime Instability and Support for Democracy and Autocracy · Feb 2024

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    Suzana Herculano-Houzel

    #487 Suzana Herculano-Houzel: The Evolution of the Human Brain, and Darwin's Descent of Man · Jun 2021

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    Svetlana Rudenko

    #633 Svetlana Rudenko: Music Perception and Cognition, Consciousness, and Synaesthesia · Jun 2022

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    Sybil Hart

    #1114 Sybil Hart: Attachment and Parent-Offspring Conflict · Jun 2025

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    Séamus Power

    #1311 Séamus Power - Inequality: A View from Manywheres · Sep 2026

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    Sónia Frota

    #571 Sónia Frota: Aquisição de Linguagem, Prosódia, o Baby Lab, e o Português · Jan 2022

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    Talbot Andrews
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    Talya Miron-Shatz

    #597 Talya Miron-Shatz - Your Life Depends on It; Medical Decision-Making · Mar 2022

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    Tanisha Fazal

    #626 Tanisha Fazal - Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict · May 2022

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    Teresa Baron

    #1255 Teresa Baron: The Ethics of Procreation, Pronatalism, and Antinatalism · 2 episodes

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    Tereza Capelos

    #748 Tereza Capelos: Ressentiment, Populism, Brexit, and the Role of Trust in Politics · 2 episodes

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    Thaís Pansani

    #1049 Thaís Pansani: H. sapiens in the Americas, and the Extinction of Megafauna · Jan 2025

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    Thibaud Gruber

    #372 Thibaud Gruber: Primates, Tool Use, and Communication · Oct 2020

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    Thom Scott-Phillips

    #299 Thom Scott-Phillips: The Biological And Cultural Bases Of Language · Feb 2020

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    Thomas Coleman

    #434 Thomas Coleman: The Psychology of Believers and Nonbelievers · Feb 2021

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    Thomas Costello

    #590 Thomas Costello: Authoritarianism on the Right and the Left, and Sexual Objectification · Feb 2022

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    Thomas Morgan

    #216 Thomas Morgan: Cultural Evolution And Transmission, And Cumulative Culture · Aug 2019

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    Tibor Rutar

    #818 Tibor Rutar: The Rise, Benefits, and Challenges of Liberal Democracies · 2 episodes

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    Timothy Lenton

    #433 Timothy Lenton - Revolutions that Made the Earth · Feb 2021

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    Timothy Weaver

    #998 Timothy Weaver: Human Evolution, and the Interaction between Neanderthals and H. Sapiens · Sep 2024

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    Timothy Winegard

    #1237 Timothy Winegard - The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator · Apr 2026

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    Tobias Gerstenberg

    #999 Tobias Gerstenberg: How We Think About Causality and Moral Responsibility · Sep 2024

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    Todd May

    #1069 Todd May: Should We Go Extinct? · Mar 2025

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    Todd Shackelford

    #548 Todd Shackelford: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology · 4 episodes

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    Touré Reed

    #448 Touré Reed - Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism · Mar 2021

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    Tristan Rogers

    #1080 Tristan Rogers: Conservatism, Past and Present · Apr 2025

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