First off, for those who don't know, an armchair psychologist is someone who isn't really a psychologist, just an observer making educated guesses about the workings of people's minds.

Now, onto the topic at hand - Niceness. I give you a compliment. I do things for you, I'm generally super nice. You, the recipient of my niceness, automatically think I want something from you. But I don't, I'm just being nice.

The question here is, why is this so? Are people so far up their own bottoms that they think people are nice just to get things from them? Really?

Please discuss, educatedly of course.

People who you are nice too, you excpect to be nice back to you.
If they are nasty back to you, you become the same way or you ignore them. Either way, you're not being "nice" to them anymore.

So in a way, when you are nice to them you expect them to be nice to you. Therefor, you do want something.

By "something", I meant not returning niceness, but a material object. For example, a small child helping his/her parents with something because he/she wants an ice cream.

Well that solely depends on character and trust, don't you think?

I do think so. But we're starting to discuss why people are nice to people to get things from them - The question at hand still refers to the person who thinks someone is nice to them because they want a reward of some sort (otherwise known as sucking up).

Well then let's go to the question at hand.
In my opinion, it's just because that's what people do. It's a sense people have, like when you know someone is boring a hole in you're head with their eyes when you aren't looking at them. I suppose theres more nasty than good in the general population of the world. So when somebody is nice, it just seems suspicious. How's that sound?

i dont think that way at all. if someone is nice to me i think its because they're a nice person. and if they're my friend they have the right to ask for favors.

People help because it helps. A little tautology lesson for you guys.