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Keel teaches distinctions that have a public academic lineage, and it cites that lineage visibly. This page is the bibliography the forty-four modules draw on, with a link wherever a genuinely open-access copy exists.
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The positioning statement
Keel teaches distinctions that have a public academic lineage: phenomenology (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer), the philosophy of language (Austin, Searle, Wittgenstein, Winograd and Flores, Echeverría), the biology of cognition (Maturana and Varela), existentialism (Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, Frankl), cognitive and behavioural psychology (Beck, Ellis, Hayes, Gollwitzer), and the Erhard, Jensen and Zaffron working papers, which are freely posted academic literature with SSRN and Harvard Business School identifiers. Keel derives from that literature and cites it visibly.
Keel is not derived from, based on, or an alternative to any commercial seminar program, and it uses no program's proprietary vocabulary. Where an idea in the public literature carries a distinctive label invented by a particular author, Keel coins its own word and cites the work for the concept.
How claims are made
A module cites only entries on this page. Effect sizes are stated exactly as the source states them: implementation intentions are d = .65 across 94 tests (Gollwitzer and Sheeran 2006), and that is how the module says it. No citation, page number or quotation is invented; chapter and page references appear only where they have been checked against the copy on file. A "freely available" link points to the author's, the publisher's or an institution's copy, or a public-domain text; copies hosted by third parties are not linked, however convenient. Every module has a log in a derivation ledger naming the sources it derives from, written the week the module was written.
The bibliography · 94 sources, 24 with open-access copies
Phenomenology
Heidegger, M., Being and Time (1927/1962). Harper & Log 1962, trans. Macquarrie & Robinson.Cited in weeks 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 14, 15, 27, 30, 31, 34, 35, 44
Merleau-Ponty, M., Phenomenology of Perception (1945/1962). Routledge 1962, trans. Smith.Cited in weeks 10, 14
Existentialism
Sartre, J-P., Being and Nothingness (1943/1956). Philosophical Library 1956, trans. Barnes.Cited in weeks 8, 15, 24, 28, 36, 40
Camus, A., The Myth of Sisyphus (1942/1955). Knopf 1955, trans. O'Brien.Cited in week 28
Kierkegaard, S., Either/Or (1843). Princeton 1987, trans. Hong & Hong.Cited in week 36
Yalom, I. D., Existential Psychotherapy (1980). Basic Books 1980.Cited in week 31
Buber, M., I and Thou (1923/1970). Scribner 1970, trans. Kaufmann.Cited in week 40
Philosophy of language
Searle, J. R., Expression and Meaning (1979). Cambridge 1979.
Winograd, T. & Flores, F., Understanding Computers and Cognition (1986). Ablex 1986.Cited in weeks 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, 16, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 37, 38
Flores, F., Management and Communication in the Office of the Future (1982). PhD dissertation, UC Berkeley 1982.Cited in weeks 5, 6, 7, 21
Flores, F., Graves, M., Hartfield, B. & Winograd, T., "Computer systems and the design of organizational interaction", ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems 6(2) (1988). doi:10.1145/45941.45943. Open accessCited in weeks 5, 6
Solomon, R. C. & Flores, F., Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life (2001). Oxford University Press 2001.
Biology of cognition
Maturana, H. & Varela, F., The Tree of Knowledge (1987). Shambhala 1987.Cited in weeks 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 14, 26, 33, 40
Maturana, H. & Varela, F., Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (1980). Reidel 1980.Cited in weeks 9, 11
Varela, F., Thompson, E. & Rosch, E., The Embodied Mind (1991). MIT Press 1991.Cited in weeks 10, 35
Damasio, A., Descartes' Error (1994); "The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex" (1996). Putnam 1994; *Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B* 351.Cited in week 10
Systems
Bateson, G., Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972). Chandler 1972.Cited in week 13
Watzlawick, P., Weakland, J. & Fisch, R., Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution (1974). Norton 1974.
Erhard\u2013Jensen papers
Erhard, W., Jensen, M. C. & Zaffron, S., "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality", Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper 06-11 / SSRN 920625 (2009). SSRN 920625. Open accessCited in weeks 6, 8, 20, 21, 25, 38, 44
Erhard, W., Jensen, M. C. & Zaffron, S., "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality: Abridged", SSRN 1542759 (2010). SSRN 1542759. Open access
Jensen, M. C. (interviewed by Karen Christensen), "Integrity: Without It Nothing Works", Rotman Magazine (Fall 2009); Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper 10-042, SSRN 1511274. SSRN 1511274; SSRN lists Jensen as the author; the modules had credited Erhard & Jensen, corrected at v19. Open access
Erhard, W., Jensen, M. C. & Echeverria, J., "The First and Second and Third of Eight Course Readings", SSRN 2416455. SSRN 2416455. Open access
Erhard, W., Jensen, M. C., Zaffron, S. & Echeverria, J., "Course Materials for: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model'", SSRN 1263835. SSRN 1263835. Open accessCited in weeks 24, 29, 33, 44
Erhard, W., Jensen, M. C., Zaffron, S. & Zeller, K., "Course Materials for: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership'" (later edition), SSRN 2931820. SSRN 2931820. Open access
Zaffron, S. & Logan, D., The Three Laws of Performance (2009). Jossey-Bass 2009.Cited in weeks 1, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 18, 22, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 37, 42
Cognitive and behavioural psychology
Beck, A. T., Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (1976). International Universities Press 1976.Cited in weeks 1, 4, 7
Beck, A. T., Rush, A. J., Shaw, B. F. & Emery, G., Cognitive Therapy of Depression (1979). Guilford 1979.Cited in week 4
Ellis, A., Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy (1962). Lyle Stuart 1962.Cited in week 1
Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K. & Wilson, K., Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (1999). Guilford 1999.
Masuda, A., Hayes, S. C., Sackett, C. F. & Twohig, M. P., "Cognitive defusion and self-relevant negative thoughts", Behaviour Research and Therapy 42 (2004). doi:10.1016/j.brat.2003.10.008.
Young, J., Klosko, J. & Weishaar, M., Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2003). Guilford 2003.Cited in weeks 2, 32
Bowlby, J., Attachment and Loss, Vol. 1: Attachment (1969). Basic Books 1969.Cited in week 2
Padesky, C. A., "Socratic Questioning: Changing Minds or Guiding Discovery?" (1993). Keynote, European Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, London 1993. Open accessCited in week 22
Foa, E. B. & Kozak, M. J., "Emotional processing of fear: Exposure to corrective information", Psychological Bulletin 99(1) (1986). doi:10.1037/0033-2909.99.1.20.Cited in week 17
Lieberman, M. D., Eisenberger, N. I., Crockett, M. J., Tom, S. M., Pfeifer, J. H. & Way, B. M., "Putting Feelings Into Words", Psychological Science 18(5) (2007). doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01916.x. Open access
Rotter, J. B., "Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement", Psychological Monographs 80(1) (1966). doi:10.1037/h0092976.Cited in week 8
Nesse, R. M., "Natural selection and the regulation of defenses: A signal detection analysis of the smoke detector principle", Evolution and Human Behavior 26 (2005). doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.002. Open accessCited in week 11
Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C. & Vohs, K. D., "Bad Is Stronger Than Good", Review of General Psychology 5(4) (2001). doi:10.1037/1089-2680.5.4.323. Open access
Swann, W. B., "Self-verification: Bringing social reality into harmony with the self", in Psychological Perspectives on the Self, Vol. 2 (1983). Erlbaum 1983.Cited in weeks 22, 24, 42
Merton, R. K., "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy", Antioch Review 8(2) (1948). doi:10.2307/4609267.Cited in weeks 1, 37
Zeigarnik, B., "On Finished and Unfinished Tasks" (1927; trans. in Ellis, W. D., ed., A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology, 1938). Psychologische Forschung 9.Cited in week 25
Pennebaker, J. W. & Smyth, J. M., Opening Up by Writing It Down (3rd ed., 2016). Guilford 2016.
Wood, W. & Rünger, D., "Psychology of Habit", Annual Review of Psychology 67 (2016). doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-122414-033417. Open accessCited in weeks 4, 9
Wood, W. & Neal, D. T., "A New Look at Habits and the Habit-Goal Interface", Psychological Review 114(4) (2007). doi:10.1037/0033-295X.114.4.843. Open accessCited in week 43
Duhigg, C., The Power of Habit (2012). Random House 2012.Cited in week 9
Gollwitzer, P. M., "Implementation Intentions: Strong Effects of Simple Plans", American Psychologist 54(7) (1999). doi:10.1037/0003-066X.54.7.493.Cited in week 43
Gollwitzer, P. M. & Sheeran, P., "Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta-analysis of Effects and Processes", Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 38, 69-119 (2006). doi:10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1. Open accessCited in week 43
Oettingen, G., Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation (2014). Current 2014.
Schwartz, B., The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (2004). Ecco 2004.Cited in week 36
Iyengar, S. S. & Lepper, M. R., "When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing?", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79(6), 995-1006 (2000). doi:10.1037/0022-3514.79.6.995. Open accessCited in week 36
Tetlock, P. E. & Gardner, D., Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2015). Crown 2015.Cited in week 37
Wellbeing and motivation
Gilbert, D., Stumbling on Happiness (2006). Knopf 2006.
Brickman, P. & Campbell, D. T., "Hedonic relativism and planning the good society", in Appley, M. H., ed., Adaptation-Level Theory (1971); Brickman, P., Coates, D. & Janoff-Bulman, R., "Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 36(8) (1978). Academic Press 1971; doi:10.1037/0022-3514.36.8.917.
Sheldon, K. M. & Lyubomirsky, S., "The Challenge of Staying Happier: Testing the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention Model", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38(5) (2012). doi:10.1177/0146167212436400. Open access
Berridge, K. C. & Robinson, T. E., "Liking, Wanting, and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction", American Psychologist 71(8) (2016). doi:10.1037/amp0000059.
Deci, E. L. & Ryan, R. M., Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness (2017; the theory first stated in Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior, 1985). Guilford 2017; Plenum 1985.
Ryan, R. M. & Deci, E. L., "Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being", American Psychologist 55(1) (2000). doi:10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.68. Open access
Ryan, R. M. & Deci, E. L., "On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being", Annual Review of Psychology 52 (2001). doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.141.
Deci, E. L., "Effects of externally mediated rewards on intrinsic motivation", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 18(1) (1971). doi:10.1037/h0030644.
Ryff, C. D., "Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57(6) (1989). doi:10.1037/0022-3514.57.6.1069. Open accessCited in week 41
Csikszentmihalyi, M., Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990). Harper & Log 1990.
Tedeschi, R. G. & Calhoun, L. G., "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence", Psychological Inquiry 15(1) (2004). doi:10.1207/s15327965pli1501_01.
Brown, B., "Shame Resilience Theory: A Grounded Theory Study on Women and Shame", Families in Society 87(1) (2006); Daring Greatly (2012). doi:10.1606/1044-3894.3483; Gotham 2012.
Humanistic, narrative and adult learning
Rogers, C. R., "The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change", Journal of Consulting Psychology 21(2), 95-103 (1957). doi:10.1037/h0045357.Cited in weeks 39, 40
Rogers, C. R., On Becoming a Person (1961). Houghton Mifflin 1961.
White, M. & Epston, D., Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends (1990). Norton 1990.Cited in weeks 15, 30, 32
Mezirow, J., Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning (1991). Jossey-Bass 1991.Cited in weeks 13, 34
Kolb, D. A., Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development (1984). Prentice-Hall 1984.
Dewey, J., Experience and Education (1938). Kappa Delta Pi 1938.Cited in week 16
Kegan, R. & Lahey, L. L., Immunity to Change (2009). Harvard Business Press 2009.
Argyris, C., "Teaching Smart People How to Learn", Harvard Business Review 69(3) (1991). HBR May-June 1991.
Argyris, C., Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning (1990). Allyn & Bacon 1990.
Stone, D. & Heen, S., Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (2014). Viking 2014.
Bandura, A., Social Learning Theory (1977). Prentice-Hall 1977.Cited in week 44
Trust and organisations
Mayer, R. C., Davis, J. H. & Schoorman, F. D., "An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust", Academy of Management Review 20(3), 709-734 (1995). doi:10.5465/amr.1995.9508080335.
Rousseau, D. M., Sitkin, S. B., Burt, R. S. & Camerer, C., "Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View of Trust", Academy of Management Review 23(3), 393-404 (1998). doi:10.5465/amr.1998.926617.
Zak, P. J. & Knack, S., "Trust and Growth", The Economic Journal 111(470) (2001); Zak, P. J., "The Neuroscience of Trust", Harvard Business Review (Jan-Feb 2017). doi:10.1111/1468-0297.00609.
Avolio, B. J. & Gardner, W. L., "Authentic leadership development", The Leadership Quarterly 16(3) (2005); Walumbwa, F. O., Avolio, B. J., Gardner, W. L., Wernsing, T. S. & Peterson, S. J., "Authentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Measure", Journal of Management 34(1) (2008). doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2005.03.001; doi:10.1177/0149206307308913.
Hatfield, E., Cacioppo, J. T. & Rapson, R. L., "Emotional Contagion", Current Directions in Psychological Science 2(3) (1993); Goleman, D., Boyatzis, R. & McKee, A., Primal Leadership (2002). doi:10.1111/1467-8721.ep10770953; Harvard Business School Press 2002. Open access
Wack, P., "Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead", Harvard Business Review (Sept-Oct 1985); Schwartz, P., The Art of the Long View (1991). HBR 1985; Doubleday 1991.Cited in week 30
Stoic, Zen and public-domain texts
Epictetus, Enchiridion (c. 125 CE), trans. Elizabeth Carter. public domain. Open accessCited in week 26
Roosevelt, T., "Citizenship in a Republic" (Sorbonne, 23 April 1910). public domain. Open accessCited in weeks 17, 41
Suzuki, S., Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970). Weatherhill 1970.Cited in weeks 3, 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, 28, 35, 40, 42
Kapleau, P., The Three Pillars of Zen (1965). Harper & Log 1965.
Ramm, B. J., "The Technology of Awakening: Experiments in Zen Phenomenology", Religions 12(3) (2021). doi:10.3390/rel12030192. Open accessCited in week 35
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