Product Review

"Primetime: Basic Instincts" brings some of most well known intellectual theories and psychological experiments to life for the first time to test people's innate decision making process. This 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. This five-part series features 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.

This first installment begins with a hidden-camera series, "What Would You Do?," that captures people's reactions when confronted with dilemmas compelling them to either act or mind their own business, intervene or walk on by. Using hidden cameras, "Primetime" sets up five scenarios where there may be no clear right or wrong answer, but which demand a decision nonetheless. John Quinones reports on people's split-second, and often surprising, decision-making process.

Anchor: John Quinones
Airdate: December 6, 2006