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Requirements Engineering (RE)-related activities require high collaboration between various roles in software engineering (SE), such as requirements engineers, stakeholders, developers, and so on. Their demographics, views, understanding of technologies, working styles, communication and collaboration capabilities make RE highly human-dependent. Identifying how “human aspects”—such as motivation, domain knowledge, communication skills, personality, emotions, culture, and so on—might impact RE-related activities would help us improve RE and SE in general. This study aims at better understanding current industry perspectives on the influence of human aspects on RE-related activities, specifically focusing on motivation and personality, by targeting software practitioners involved in RE-related activities. Our findings indicate that software practitioners consider motivation, domain knowledge, attitude …