| The political philosophy of Rousseau RD Masters Princeton University Press, 2015 | 660 | 2015 |
| The nature of politics RD Masters Yale University Press, 1989 | 554 | 1989 |
| "Happy Warriors": Leaders' Facial Displays, Viewers' Emotions, and Political Support DG Sullivan, RD Masters American Journal of Political Science, 345-368, 1988 | 485 | 1988 |
| Emotional reactions to a political leader's expressive displays. GJ McHugo, JT Lanzetta, DG Sullivan, RD Masters, BG Englis Journal of personality and social psychology 49 (6), 1513, 1985 | 418 | 1985 |
| Ostracism as a social and biological phenomenon: An introduction M Gruter, RD Masters Ethology and Sociobiology 7 (3-4), 149-158, 1986 | 386 | 1986 |
| On the social contract, with Geneva manuscript and political economy JJ Rousseau, RD Masters, JR Masters St. Martin's Press, 1978 | 267 | 1978 |
| Emotional and cognitive responses to televised images of political leaders JT Lanzetta, DG Sullivan, RD Masters, GJ McHugo Mass media and political thought: An information-processing approach, 85-116, 1985 | 167 | 1985 |
| World politics as a primitive political system RD Masters World Politics 16 (4), 595-619, 1964 | 166 | 1964 |
| The facial displays of leaders: Toward an ethology of human politics RD Masters, DG Sullivan, JT Lanzetta, GJ McHugo, BG Englis Journal of Social and Biological Structures 9 (4), 319-343, 1986 | 162 | 1986 |
| Nonverbal displays and political leadership in France and the United States RD Masters, DG Sullivan Political behavior 11, 123-156, 1989 | 149 | 1989 |
| Fortune is a river: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli's magnificent dream to change the course of Florentine history RD Masters Plume published by the Penguin Group, 1999 | 137 | 1999 |
| The biological nature of the state RD Masters World Politics 35 (2), 161-193, 1983 | 137 | 1983 |
| Politics as a biological phenomenon RD Masters Biology and the Social Sciences, 203-224, 2019 | 126 | 2019 |
| Water treatment with silicofluorides and lead toxicity RD Masters, MJ Coplan International Journal of Environmental Studies 56 (4), 435-449, 1999 | 120 | 1999 |
| Nonverbal behavior and leadership: Emotion and cognition in political information processing RD Masters, DG Sullivan Explorations in Political Psychology, 1990 | 113 | 1990 |
| Beyond relativism: Science and human values RD Masters University Press of New England, 1993 | 106 | 1993 |
| Association of silicofluoride treated water with elevated blood lead RD Masters, MJ Coplan, BT Hone, JE Dykes Neurotoxicology 21 (6), 1091-1100, 2000 | 102 | 2000 |
| Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the science of power RD Masters University of Notre Dame Pess, 2016 | 101 | 2016 |
| Dominance & attention: Images of leaders in German, French, & American TV news RD Masters, S Frey, G Bente Polity 23 (3), 373-394, 1991 | 101 | 1991 |
| Environmental pollution, neurotoxicity, and criminal violence RD Masters, B Hone, A Doshi Environmental toxicology, 23-58, 1998 | 98 | 1998 |
