Zhong and Liljenquist (2006) suggested recalling unethical deeds increases accessibility to cleaning thoughts and that physical cleansing following recall reduces reparative behaviors associated with moral transgressions. The present study investigated their findings by giving participants an opportunity to engage in immoral behavior and assessing whether cleaning-related thoughts would be activated to alleviate feelings of guilt. It also investigated whether guilt-induced participants who washed their hands would be less likely to volunteer for a non-compensatory experiment. The results did not support the main hypotheses. There were no differences in the number of cleaning-related words produced on a Word Completion Task among guilt-induced and non-guilt-induced participants. There was also no difference in volunteerism rates among guilt-induced participants who washed their hands and those who did not wash their hands; however, guilt-induced participants did volunteer slightly more than participants not guilt-induced, which is consistent with previous research on behavioral responses to moral transgressions.