M. Garry, S. J. Sharman, J. Feldman, G. A. Marlatt, E. F. Loftus "Examining Memory for Heterosexual College Students' Sexual Experiences Using an Electronic Mail Diary" (Full Text PDF) Health Psychology 2002, Vol. 21, No. 6, 629–634

To examine memory for sexual experiences, the authors asked 37 sexually active, nonmonogamous, heterosexual college students to complete an e-mail diary every day for 1 month. The diary contained questions about their sexual behaviors. Six to 12 months later, they returned for a surprise memory test, which contained questions about their sexual experiences from the diary phase. They were asked about their sexual partners, the types of sexual experiences they had, and condom use. Participants underreported the number of partners they had, but they overreported both sexual experiences and condom use. The results have implications for both sexual health educators and for people who engage in high-risk sexual behaviors

"We wondered if participants realized how inaccurate they were. For each event, we compared participants' accuracy ratings with their actual accuracy and found that they were uncorrelated, suggesting that people had little awareness of how inaccurate they were."

Abelson, R. P., Loftus, E. F., & Greenwald, A. G. (1992) "Attempts to improve the accuracy of self-reports of voting" in  J. M. Tanur (ed.) 1992 Questions About Questions: Inquiries into the Cognitive Bases of Surveys.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Haven't found an abstract for this yet, but it describes attempts to create surveys that corrected for these biases of memory, none of which worked.

Robert F. Belli, Michael W. Traugott, Margaret Young, Katherine A. McGonagle (1999) "Reducing Vote Overreporting in Surveys: Social Desirability, Memory Failure, and Source Monitoring" The Public Opinion Quarterly Volume 63: p90-108

C. D. B. Burt, J. S. Popple (1998) "Memorial distortions in donation data" The Journal of Social Psychology, 153, 724-733.

In this study, participants' memory for charitable acts, including the amounts they donated to charity and the frequency of such donations, and also the processes associated with the recall of charitable acts was explored. Participants were Australian students who earned money for responding correctly to a decision-making task and then were given the opportunity to make a donation to a charity. Five weeks later they attempted to recall how much they had donated. Recall of the amount donated produced significant overestimations. A 2nd study examined estimates of donating frequency, and results suggested that the frequency of donating was overestimated. The discussion focuses on the validity of survey data on donation size and frequency and the processes associated with the recall of charitable acts.