Play games to help brain scientists discover the secrets to happiness!
4.18·228 reviews·10,000+ downloads
About The Happiness Project
The Happiness Project is an education app developed by Rutledge Lab.
Download Statistics
The Happiness Project has been downloaded 30 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 18 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 FREE to download. The APK download size is 53.35 MB. The latest 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 app has been available on Google Play December 2020.
Description
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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These games are kind of addictive ?!?! It is always the simpler games that are more fun-and why not play them if it helps science ♡︎ And I have been playing for a while today and no ads !
★★★★☆Peter Gerregano· Mar 29, 2023
Interesting app. Cool way to explore correlation and causation for happiness.
★★★★★Implozia· May 9, 2021
I don't expect the most amazing of gameplay or artwork from a game meant to research, but It's still nice and a nice time killer. But what I truly admire about this app is that is for research and mental health, and I always encourage that. This is one of the best ways nowadays to research the population and traditional digital surveys, although incorporated in this app, are more boring than this, which makes an effort to educate us and involve us better.
★☆☆☆☆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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