Symbolically, hawks represent aggression while doves represent peace. I saw why recently, when a Cooper’s hawk flew in and caught a mourning dove in my front yard. A Cooper’s hawk is an accipiter.

The general payoff matrix for the ‘hawk vs. dove’ game (a). The payoffs are for player 1 employing the strategies in the rows against player 2 employing the strategy in the columns.

President Joe Biden came to office promising to end "forever war," and that's the promise that could have been the easiest to fulfill. When it comes to war and peace, the U.S. president is more ...

The extraordinarily influential Hawk-Dove model shows how ... Influences on resource-holding potential during dangerous group contests between wood ants. Animal Behaviour (in press, 2010).

Here is a look at comments from Fed policymakers since the last rate-setting decision, sorting them under the labels “dove” and “hawk” as a rough shorthand for their monetary policy leanings, as best ...