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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   Marco Del Giudice

   #352 Marco Del Giudice: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gender Differences (Part 2) · 3 episodes

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   Mark Leary

   #201 Mark Leary: The Self, Self-presentation, And Social Status · Jul 2019

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   Steve Stewart-Williams

   #1264 Steve Stewart-Williams: A Billion Years of Sex Differences · 2 episodes

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   Steven Hayes

   #229 Steven Hayes: A Liberated Mind; Relational Frame Theory And Acceptance and Commitment Therapy · Sep 2019

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   Mahtab Jafari

   #677 Mahtab Jafari: The Truth About Dietary Supplements · Sep 2022

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   Anna Riedl

   #859 Anna Riedl: Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences, and the Great Rationality Debate · Nov 2023

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   Christopher Kavanagh

   #1291 Christopher Kavanagh & Matthew Browne: Decoding the Gurus · Aug 2026

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   Kaytlin Bailey

   #1195 Kaytlin Bailey: The History of Sex Work, and What Sex Workers Need Politically · Dec 2025

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   Alice Eagly

   #271 Alice Eagly: The Psychology Of Gender, And Gender Equality · Dec 2019

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    Brian Hare

    #378 Brian Hare: Survival of the Friendliest · Oct 2020

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    Christian L. Hart

    #916 Christian Hart - The Psychology of Lying, and How You Can Avoid Being Duped · Mar 2024

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    Ev Fedorenko

    #797 Evelina Fedorenko: The Neuroscience of Language · Jun 2023

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    Geoff MacDonald

    #980 Geoff MacDonald: The Psychology of Single People · Aug 2024

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    Jennifer Watling Neal
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    Mark Schaller

    #45 Mark Schaller: Interpersonal Communication and Human Culture, The Behavioral Immune System · Apr 2019

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    Sarah Brosnan

    #163 Sarah Brosnan: Morality, Reciprocity, Fairness, And Property in Primates · Apr 2019

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    Stuart Vyse

    #693 Stuart Vyse - The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rational · Oct 2022

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    Colin Allen

    #269 Colin Allen: Minds, Cognition, And Cognitive Ethology · Dec 2019

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    Don Moore

    #338 Don Moore - Perfectly Confident: How To Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely · May 2020

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    Jerome Wakefield

    #754 Jerome Wakefield: What is a Mental Disorder?; Depression, and Anxiety · Mar 2023

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    Jessica Flanigan

    #1241 Jessica Flanigan: The Ethics of Sex Work · Apr 2026

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    Audun Dahl

    #1287 Audun Dahl - Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing · Jul 2026

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    Benjamin Bergen

    #318 Benjamin Bergen: Embodied Cognition, Embodied Simulation, Language, And AI · Apr 2020

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    Charles Foster

    #541 Charles Foster - Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness · Oct 2021

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    David Leiser

    #624 David Leiser - How We Misunderstand Economics And Why It Matters · May 2022

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    David P. Barash

    #467 David Barash - Threats: Intimidation and Its Discontents ; Nuclear Deterrence · 2 episodes

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    David Potter

    #489 David Potter - Disruption: Why Things Change · Jul 2021

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    Duncan Pritchard

    #938 Duncan Pritchard: Truth, and Cultivating Intellectual Virtues · May 2024

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    Erez Yoeli
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    Greg Eghigian

    #387 Greg Eghigian: The History of Mental Illness and Psychiatry · Nov 2020

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    Howard Steven Friedman

    #382 Howard Friedman - Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life · Oct 2020

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    Iris Berent

    #328 Iris Berent - The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature · 4 episodes

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    Jay Belsky

    #158 Jay Belsky: Attachment, Child Development, And Child Maltreatment · Apr 2019

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    John Petrocelli

    #591 John Petrocelli - The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit · Feb 2022

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    Joshua Glasgow

    #1085 Joshua Glasgow - The Significance Impulse: On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance · 2 episodes

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    Lance Grande

    #1012 Lance Grande - The Evolution of Religions: A History of Related Traditions · Oct 2024

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    Lee McIntyre

    #618 Lee McIntyre - How to Talk to a Science Denier · 2 episodes

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    Lesley Newson

    #458 Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson - A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution · Apr 2021

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    Mark Moffett

    #615 Mark Moffett - The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall · Apr 2022

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    Michael Ruse

    Michael Ruse Part 2: Race, Gene Editing, Religion and Science · 3 episodes

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