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90 PART I: General Issuesthe benefit of what we have learnedabout people’s tendencies to comply basedon Milgrim’s findings warrant the risks thathis paradigm entails? More generally, howcan IRBs best estimate the potentialbenefits of proposed research when it isimpossible for them to use the outcome of theresearch in their assessment of its potentialbenefits?4. Consider the following scenario presented by Fineand Kurdek (1993) as part of their discussion of theissue of determining authorship of a publication.An undergraduate student asked a psychologyfaculty member to supervise an honors thesis.The student proposed a topic, the faculty memberprimarily developed the research methodology, thestudent collected and entered the data, the facultymember conducted the statistical analyses, andthe student used part of the analyses for the thesis.The student wrote the thesis under very closesupervision by the faculty member. After the honorsthesis was completed, the faculty member decidedthat data from the entire project were sufficientlyinteresting to warrant publication as a unit. Becausethe student did not have the skills necessaryto write the entire study for a scientific journal,the faculty member did so. The student’s thesiscontained approximately one third of the materialpresented in the article.A Explain what factors of the situation you wouldconsider to determine if the student shouldbe an author of any publication resulting fromthis work or if the student’s work should beacknowledged in a footnote to the article.B If you decide that the student should be anauthor, explain whether you think the studentshould be the first author or the second authorof the article.