b'science and decisionsStudying science opens up the worldSometimes you get answers you dont understand, he says. Or you think the answer is going to be one thing and it turns out that you were wrong. So you have to go back and rethink your hypothesis.It can be very frustrating when things dont work out, he says.So what has kept him going?Persistence. Dr. Kable says scientists need lots of it to make progress.By Korey Davis, Juliana Flemming, Sahnai Henderson, Adaeze Orji, and Toni WigginsDePaul Healthy Trailblazer JournalWhen Dr.fascinated by the connection between Joseph Kablethe brains cells and tissues and the was in gradeway people behave. Why do people do school, hethe things they do? Why did they do didnt think hethat and not this? would become a scientist. In Dr. Kables research, he studies Dr. Joseph Kablewhats going on in the brain that Psychology professor In scienceaffects how people make decisions. I class, he felt hewanted to study that aspect of human was only memorizing facts so he couldbehavior, he says.answer questions on tests. That didnt interest him. Being a scientist has not always been easy. It was a long road. There were But his feelings about science changeddefinitely times where I wasnt so when he got to college. It was theconfident that I made the right choice.experience of working in a laboratory that really inspired me, says Dr. Kable,Scientists do a lot of experiments. And who is a psychology professor at thea lot of them fail or have unexpected University of Pennsylvania.results. I realized that the day-to-day of being a scientist was not memorizing thingsI realized that the day-to-day of being that we already knew but trying toa scientist was not memorizing things learn new things about the world. that we already knew but trying to learn new He says he made a good decision to become a scientist. It has allowed himthings about the world.to indulge his curiosity and use his problem-solving skills. Page 4 illustrations: Delaney Jackson, 7th grade, MaST Community Charter Healthy Panther Post (globe lifter) In his graduate school studies, he| Yana Patel, 7th grade, MaST Community Charter Healthy Panther Post (decision tree)focused on the human brain. He wasPage 5 illustration: Devin Roberts, 8th grade, DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal4B Y K I D S , F O R K I D S | S p r i n g 2 0 2 5'