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Here are six examples of behavioral scientists who have stepped off the academic path into some interesting territory.

This is the first time researchers have been able to connect brain activity with a real-life consumer decision.

For behavioral scientists considering a career in public polling research, it helps to have a fascination with numbers.

"Trying to get tenure in that department, I perceived, was going to be a battle." --Dawn Del Carlo.

Decision scientists may be mathematicians, statisticians, economists, philosophers, management theorists, or psychologists.

"He said I could go back to school, or I could be a missionary and translate the bible into foreign languages. So I went to school." --Jessica Maye

"Decision science is moving quickly, and is very open ... to new methods and ideas. You can really challenge things and make contributions," says decision-making scientist Carlos Trujillo.

Making decisions better and faster is a goal found across the spectrum of disciplines …

"In school, I expanded my own mind. Now I expand other people's minds through the work that we do every day."

Because policymakers often are unfamiliar with the environmental science involved, a decision analyst serves as a conduit to translate the data into a useful framework.

Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.

Many Spanish trainees have been forced to start their doctorates without financial help.

The best and most popular stories of 2012, as chosen by readers and editors.

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.

So far in her career, Nadia Moore has toured several major subfields of toxicology.

"I foresee a future battle for survival between religion and science-based technologies of immortality." --Bill Bainbridge

In Vienna, Eastern and central European scientists gathered to network and learn how to be more competitive for ERC grants.

As maps have changed, so have mapmakers.