Dr. Ostrov is also the Director of the UB Social Development Laboratory and a faculty affiliate of the UB Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention. As a developmental psychologist, Dr. Ostrov’s research focuses on understanding the development of subtypes of aggression in young children. He has also developed and tested a developmentally appropriate intervention for decreasing aggression and peer victimization subtypes in preschool classrooms. Dr. Ostrov has published his research in a variety of top peer-reviewed journals including: Child Development, Development & Psychopathology, and Psychological Review. Dr. Ostrov is an associate editor at the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) Early Childhood Research Quarterly.