READ ME File For A novel approach to characterise the energy cost of human cool-seeking behaviour and its individual variability during heat stress: Supplementary Table 1. Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D3780 Date that the file was created: December 2025 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: Nuno Koch Esteves, University of Southampton Date of data collection: October to December 2024 Information about geographic location of data collection: Southampton, UK -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC-BY Recommended citation for the data: This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS:N Koch Esteves, D Luck, H Blount, FR Cavallo, PR Worsley, J Sheffield, I Galea, D Filingeri TITLE:A novel approach to characterise the energy cost of human cool-seeking behaviour and its individual variability during heat stress JOURNAL: American Journal of Physiology: Regulation, Integrative and Comprehensive Physiology PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains: One supplementary table reporting a correlation matrix. -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Methods for processing the data: Data were analysed via Pearson's Correlation Test. Environmental/experimental conditions: 36 Celsius; 40% RH People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: NKE, DL, HB, FRC, PRW, DF -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- Number of variables: 8 Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used: Data for participants that engaged with the fanning behaviour during FANFREE (n=7). ΔTc: core (gastrointestinal) temperature; ∆Tsk: whole-body mean skin temperature; ∆(RH)sk: whole-body mean skin microclimate relative humidity.