What would you do?

Do you have good instincts? ABC will be airing a 5 part Primetime special, Basic Instincts, beginning Wednesday, December 6 at 10 PM EST. Basic Instincts will be examining and testing people's innate decision-making process. The limited series looks at everyday problems from weight loss to examining how small the world is, how closely connected we all are, what people are willing to do simply because someone in authority tells them to. The five-part series will feature reports from John Quinones, Jay Schadler and Chris Cuomo, and finds that what people say they would do in a given situation is quite different than what they actually do. In the first episode, they will use a hidden camera segment called What Would You Do? The cameras will capture peoples reactions when confronted with dilemmas compelling them to either act or mind their own business, intervene or walk on by. One of these segments is described thusly: "How will passengers react when a taxi driver uses hateful anti-gay slurs.... Will they tell him to stop, keep quiet, or maybe even join in? Recent attention to some celebrities hate-filled tirades has been a hot topic, but what these passengers openly say about gays in America may be even more shocking, including a man who suggests that gays should be put down. Yet three female friends are so outraged by the driver's hateful tirade that they pretend to be gay to put him in his place." Could be interesting. It's certainly a thought provoking premise.