The primary aim of our study was to examine the moderation of an attentional bias (AB) to cleanliness-related stimuli by mood state (i.e., AB appears in disgust mood but not in neutral mood) as found by Vogt et al. (2011) with the dot-probe task and whether this moderation is driven by motivational processes or affective counter-regulation. Therefore, we added a positive stimulus category to the design: If affective counter-regulation is the decisive mechanism, the moderation of AB by mood should generalize to positive stimuli. If it is a motivational process (as suggested by the authors) the moderation should be specific for cleanliness-related stimuli. In Experiment 1, we used – as Vogt et al. – a localization dot-probe task (“Is the target left or right?”) after inducing either a disgust or a neutral mood (Ndis=110, Nneu=108, online). We did not replicate the moderation effect of mood on the AB to cleanliness stimuli. We run Experiment 2 to examine whether this unexpected result might be dependent on the task since it can be argued that the localization task confounds attentional processes with response priming processes. Therefore, we used a discrimination dot-probe task (“Is the target a p or q?”) to avoid this confound (Ndis=105, Nneu=105, online). Now, we replicated the moderation effect of mood on the AB to cleanliness stimuli. (The effect, however, was smaller than the original one.) The result is more compatible to the motivational account than to counter-regulation since the AB for positive stimuli was not moderated by mood.