Consider the following scenario presented by Fine and Kurdek (1993) as part of their discussion of the issue of determining authorship of a publication. An undergraduate student asked a psychology...

Consider the following scenario presented by Fine and Kurdek (1993) as part of their discussion of the issue of determining authorship of a publication. An undergraduate student asked a psychology faculty member to supervise an honors thesis. The student proposed a topic, the faculty member primarily developed the research methodology, the student collected and entered the data, the faculty member conducted the statistical analyses, and the student used part of the analyses for the thesis. The student wrote the thesis under very close supervision by the faculty member. After the honors thesis was completed, the faculty member decided that data from the entire project were sufficiently interesting to warrant publication as a unit. Because the student did not have the skills necessary to write the entire study for a scientific journal, the faculty member did so. The student’s thesis contained approximately one third of the material presented in the article.

A Explain what factors of the situation you would consider to determine if the student should be an author of any publication resulting from this work or if the student’s work should be acknowledged in a footnote to the article.

B If you decide that the student should be an author, explain whether you think the student should be the first author or the second author of the article.