“…Despite the high failure rate, overconfidence is responsible for situations like stock market bubbles, continuous bets on acquisitions, and organizational mergers (Jordão et al, 2020). Studies have shown both positive and negative influences of overconfidence on investor returns (Goyal, Gupta and Yadav, 2021). Unrealistic optimism tends to overestimate the positivism of the future (Jordão et al, 2020).…”