[1] The term was created by Emily Pronin, a social psychologist from Princeton University's Department of Psychology, with colleagues Daniel Lin and Lee Ross.
This phenomenon has been successfully replicated and it appears that in general, stronger personal free will beliefs are associated with bias blind spot.
Performance on indices of decision making competence are not related to individual differences in bias blind spot.
In other words, most people appear to believe that they are less biased than others, regardless of their actual decision making ability.
[6] People also tend to believe they are aware of "how" and "why" they make their decisions, and therefore conclude that bias did not play a role.
[6] When made aware of various biases acting on our perception, decisions, or judgments, research has shown that we are still unable to control them.
To do this, they made audio recordings of subjects who had been told to say whatever came into their heads as they decided whether their answer to a previous question might have been affected by bias.
[10] Initial evidence suggests that the bias blind spot is not related to actual decision-making ability.
[4] Participants who scored better or poorer on various tasks associated with decision making competence were no more or less likely to be higher or lower in their susceptibility to bias blind spot.