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I looked briefly at the evidence for that. Most of it seemed to be from the so-called "self-serving bias" - which looks like an adaptive signalling system to me - and so is not really much of a "bias" at all.
People are unlikely to change existing adaptive behaviour just because someone points it out and says it is a form of "bias". The more obvious thing to do is to conclude is that they don't know what they are talking about - or that they are trying to manipulate you.