Candidate Faces and Election Outcomes: Is the Face-Vote Correlation Caused by Candidate Selection?: Corrigendum Available to Purchase

This note corrects the analysis presented in “Candidate Faces and Election Outcomes: Is the Face-Vote Correlation Caused by Candidate Selection?” (Atkinson et al., 2009). A coding error assigned incumbent Slade Gorton’s (R-WA) facial competence score to his opponent, Maria Cantwell, and vice versa. The error does not substantively affect the results, and all claims made in the article but for those about these two candidates stand. We claimed that Cantwell’s face had a negative effect on her margin of victory. In fact, her face score is above median and, by the estimates of our model, led to...