A study that investigated the effect of educating people about unconscious biases on their subsequent self-ratings of susceptibility to bias showed that those who were educated did not exhibit the bias blind spot, in contrast with the control group.
This finding provides hope that being informed about unconscious biases such as the introspection illusion may help people to avoid making biased judgments, or at least make them aware that they are biased. Findings from other studies on correction of the bias yielded mixed results. In a later review of the introspection illusion, Pronin suggests that the distinction is that studies that merely provide a warning of unconscious biases will not see a correction effect, whereas those that inform about the bias and emphasize its unconscious nature do yield corrections.
Thus, knowledge that bias can operate during conscious awareness, is the defining factor in leading people to correct it
Moreover, also Timothy Wilson has tried to find a way to get out from "introspection illusion", and in his book Strangers to ourselves he suggests that the observation of our own behaviours more than our thoughts can be one of the keys for a pure introspective knowledge
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