The Happiness Project

Play games to help brain scientists discover the secrets to happiness!

App info

Version :

8.0.11

Category :

Education

Update :

April 03, 2025

Installs :

28,446

Developer :

Rutledge Lab

Requires Android :

Android 4.4+

Content Rating :

Everyone

Get it on :

Download APK

App description

Android App Analysis and Review: The Happiness Project, Developed by Rutledge Lab. Listed in Education Category. Current Version Is 8.0.11, Updated On 03/04/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: The Happiness Project. Achieved Over 28 thousand Installs. The Happiness Project Currently Has 236 Reviews, Average Rating 4.1 Stars

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.

We are currently offering version 8.0.11. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.

We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.

It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.

What's New

Bug fixes and general improvements

Rate and review on Google Play store

4.1

236 total

5 56.5

4 17.4

3 13.5

2 2.6

1 10.0

Total number of installs (*estimated)

Estimation of total number of installs on Google Play, Approximated from number of ratings and install bounds achieved on Google Play.

Recent Comments

Marry BestFriend

This app is okay. If you accidentally click the back button before you finish the game then it won't let you finish-it marks it with a checkmark. Then the same thing happened to the second game & only leaves you with the 2 questions, you end up with a score of 0 instead of letting you click on it again to get a score to help them... It didn't have anything to do with playing on multiple days. They're four squares, if you end up home before finished, you're left with questions & score is zero.

Cheyene Woicik

Love to help science, but i wish the games had more actual info on each one and not just directions on how to play the game itself. I played a fruit one, and it was just picking 1 of 2 fruits with no way to tell which was the right one to pick. Very frustrating, though I think that is the object of the test. Some games make WAY mkre sense than others.

Amazing Grapes

I like the idea of a free app to help scientific research, but the happiness slider sometimes goes away when I'm trying to move it, which casts doubt on the results. That, and asking about a COVID vaccine makes me think this hasn't been updated in a few years. It seems awkwardly translated and janky too.

Nik D

My main issue was that honestly, I have no feeling most of the time when I win or lose especially in RNG game. And particularly, the scroll bar for showing your happiness level is continuous which makes it much harder to decide. I think using categorical variable could be less biased too over/under thinking of its value. I hope we get the result sooner!

Licurici

I don't expect the most amazing of gameplay or artwork from a game meant to research, but its 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, altough incorporated in this app, are more boring than this, which makes an effort to educate us and involve us better.

Zeke NoScooter_8

These games are easy and simplistic. The survey questions are a bit invasive, personal. But it's anonymous, (as much as anything online). I'm assuming this actually is "for Science", and I'm all for fighting depression as a disease (and personally I suppose). Anyway, if you've read this far, then download this app and pitch in.

random name I made up

From a player perspective, the games are very simplistic, and burning otherwise null time on helping science feels really good. However, I'm sorta concerned that much of the data might be skewed by the Hawthorne effect, hence why I only give 4 stars.

Louise Petersen

?? It's confusing. I'm happy to help with the project but I don't think it's going to be very accurate. The happiness slide doesn't give room for adjustment. Once you touch it it's gone. Needs a submit button after sliding bar.