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Ben Yagoda (September 2018). "Your Lying Mind". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2 September 2018. Wikipedia's "List of cognitive biases" contains 185 entries, from actor-observer bias ("the tendency for explanations of other individuals' behaviors to overemphasize the influence of their personality and underemphasize the influence of their situation … and for explanations of one's own behaviors to do the opposite") to the Zeigarnik effect ("uncompleted or interrupted tasks are remembered better than completed ones").
Cognitive bias cheat sheet (1 September 2016). "Buster Benson". Better Humans (betterhumans.pub) via Medium. Retrieved 11 April 2022. I've spent many years referencing Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases whenever I have a hunch that a certain type of thinking is an official bias but I can't recall the name or details. It's been an invaluable reference for helping me identify the hidden flaws in my own thinking. Nothing else I've come across seems to be both as comprehensive and as succinct. However, honestly, the Wikipedia page is a bit of a tangled mess.
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"Fluency Heuristic" or similar appears to be missing from the list.
In contrast to the "Rhyme as Reason", the Fluency Heuristic applies to a wider set of statements beyond those that rhyme but also have an increased ease of cognitive processing (eg catchphrases), as is supported by the information on the page dedicated to the Fluency_heuristic. Thus, it appears to be an omission on the main list of cognitive biases.