In everyday social interactions, people attribute various characteristics to others based on their visual appearance. People are especially sensitive to faces, they pay substantial amount of visual attention to them and faces play an important role in attribution of characteristics. Based on visual appearance of the face, we for example evaluate our potential mates and their attractiveness and also formidability of potential rivals. Previous studies suggest that these assessments are associated with morphological traits of the face, yet it is not entirely clear which of them play more important role and in which context. It was also shown that visual attention and assessments of others are greatly influenced by raters’ own characteristics relevant to mate choice and assessments of rivals. The main aim of this project is to inspect whether visual attention to facial features is affected by the context (mate choice/assessment of opponents), and inter-individual characteristics of the raters. Using eye-tracking method, we focus on automatic unconscious processes of visual attention and using actual assessments, we focus on higher cognitive processes in social perception of others. Further, we inspect influence of raters’ inter-individual characteristics associated with mate choice on potential differences in assessments and visual attention. In subsequent longitudinal study we test changes in these characteristics on assessments and visual attention.