Cleanliness Makes People Less Severe In Moral Judgments

I can't help wondering about religious traditions where bathing and washing are part of the regular routine, in the light of this research: Cleanliness Makes People Less Severe In Moral Judgments. Here's the main summary statement of what was discovered: "findings from both experiments demonstrated that those who were subject to the cognitive feeling of cleanliness exercised less severe moral judgment than their counterparts"
Of course the intriguing possibility it opens up is the prospect of defence lawyers asking for jurors to have showers before deliberating ...