Use Your iPhone to Track your Happiness

A new app is actually some psychology research being performed by Matt Killingsworth at Harvard, and it's designed to tackle one of nature's most ephemeral and yet fascinating questions: What is it that makes people happy? Fast Company reports.

... Essentially you sign up for the program, and then give the software a slew of personal information to give the researches some meaty data to think about later-- like how satisfied with your life you are, how much money you make, whether you're married, how liberal your political leanings are. Then, at repeated periods throughout the day you'll be pinged by your iPhone either by email or by SMS, and prompted to answer a short one-minute survey.

... After 50 successful survey answers you'll get a Happiness Report from the system, which will apparently help you work out the factors that contribute most to your levels of happiness. Or, I suppose, there's the flipside conclusion: You can learn what things make you most unhappy.

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emily | 5:01 PM | Cell Phone Apps Related Articles |
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