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Being nice, or being smart: What leads to success? A study has found that intelligence alone is a marker of success in the workplace with aspects like generosity and conscientiousness only having a small effect. Those with lower IQs are less consistent or able to predict the consequences of their actions, they said. Personality traits such as trust, generosity, agreeableness, and conscientiousness affected behavior but in smaller measures, and only initially. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Minnesota in the US and Heidelberg in Germany devised a series of strategy games to test cooperative behavior in social and workplace ­situations. Those with a higher IQ cooperated more and earned more money as part of the game. The study concluded that society is cohesive if people are smart enough to be consistent in their strategies and to foresee the consequences of their actions. Prof Eugenio Proto, of Bristol University, said: “People might naturally presume that people who are nice, conscientious,