Gilovich (1991) described an incident that he read about during a visit to Israel. A very large
number of deaths had occurred during a brief time period in one region of the country. A group of
rabbis attributed the deaths to a recent change in religious practice that allowed women to attend
funerals. Women were immediately forbidden from attending funerals in that region, and the number
of deaths subsequently decreased. How would you explain this phenomenon?
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