Happiness Quest

Rutledge Lab

About this app

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.

Ratings and reviews

It's very fun and I enjoy finding strategies for the fruit games, my current one is sticking with one fruit until it fails then switching to the other until it fails. I also find it somewhat difficult to believe that this is actually an experiment to find out gamblings effect on the brain, most of these seem like casino games if you replace the points with currency, you'd just have to rig it.

This study is very flawed. Being asked daily for my experiences over the past two weeks doesn't make sense. If you get asked the same thing repeatedly every minute, I can assure you that it won't be long before you don't think or care about your choices, you'll just pick one. I feel the need to mention that it's all quite infantilizing. I spent years putting up with this nonsense and the only reason I am now doing this now is due to financial compensation. This entire study is dehumanizing

I would love to participate in this but the games are nowhere near the right amount of engaging for me and because there seems to be a delay between every round it just is that much more frustrating. Don't get me wrong I'd love doing surveys and have no problem doing the survey end of these but the games are tedious at best

What’s new

Bugfixes and general improvements