The Happiness Project

8.0.13

Rutledge Lab

4.18

228 reviews

10,000+
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Play games to help brain scientists discover the secrets to happiness!

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About The Happiness Project

The Happiness Project is an education app developed by Rutledge Lab.

Download Statistics

The Happiness Project has been downloaded 31 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 35 times.

User Ratings

The Happiness Project is rated 4.18 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 230 ratings.

App Information

The Happiness Project is freely available from Google Play. The APK size is 53.35 MB. The latest APK version available is 8.0.13. The last update was on November 20, 2025.

Technical Requirements

The Happiness Project requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The APK has been available on Google Play since December 2020.

The Happiness Project is made and published by Rutledge Lab. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with Rutledge Lab. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to Rutledge Lab and are shown as published on Google Play.

Description by Rutledge Lab (from Google Play)

Play short games to help brain scientists study the psychology and neuroscience of well-being!

Created by scientists at UCL and Yale, this app is a citizen science project taking psychology and neuroscience experiments from the lab to your smartphone.

Every 3-minute game that you finish contributes data to real scientific research about how the brain works. The anonymous surveys help us see what causes well-being and understand mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. Be part of a unique citizen science experiment and help us write the equation for happiness!

Dr Robb Rutledge (Yale Psychology) says: "We all want to know what determines happiness. It’s hard to figure it out! In our games, we ask people about their happiness as they make decisions in different situations. We hope people enjoy our app and help us answer some really important scientific questions!"

This citizen science project was supported by the UK Medical Research Council.

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The Happiness Project has been installed 31 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it has been installed 35 times.

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Comments on The Happiness Project for Android

★★★★☆ Kaylee Guise · Nov 12, 2021

I'm enjoying participating in some intriguing research. Worth a try if you like volunteering time for science!

★★★★★ wmwn_610 ** · Feb 22, 2024

Interesting and informative. I love that the questions are specific and to the point. All the information is super transparent, and it's fun to help while also getting to know yourself better in the process.

★★★★☆ Peter Gerregano · Mar 29, 2023

Interesting app. Cool way to explore correlation and causation for happiness.

★★★★★ Matthew Ehmke Zimmer · Jun 11, 2023

Very interesting study. Some fun games and I have seen no ads. Glad I can help contribute to science.

★☆☆☆☆ 000 · Jul 26, 2021

The games are all based on styles of gambling/risk to find how this effects happiness. The games themselves other than being told to earn points there is nothing you gain for earning more or less points and it's not lime you will not be able to play because they want to study you so there's no happiness to be had for me sorry, maybe i just don't have a gambling mind?

★☆☆☆☆ Brexton Popejoy · Jun 26, 2021

Poorly designed game/app. The "science" value here seems minimal at beast as well. Every few rounds you get asked how happy you are and to slide a scale. Why would a simple experiment/game change my happiness that much? Biggest influence on my mood during the game was frustration at how poorly designed it was.

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