Effective leadership is needed in times of public health and safety crisis, yet the empirical research on what it means … to be an effective crisis leader is scarce. We present a new measure, the Crisis Leader Efficacy in Assessing and …

-LEAD) to capture the efficacy of leaders to assess information and make decisions in a public health and safety crisis. In … Studies 1 and 2, we find that C-LEAD predicts decision-making difficulty and confidence in a crisis better than a measure of …