After his friend said a new movie was the funniest he had seen in years, Willard found himself laughing throughout the viewing, even though the movie was not very funny. What concept is Willard demonstrating?

perceptual set

Explanation:

After his friend said a new movie was the funniest he had seen in years, Willard found himself laughing throughout the viewing, even though the movie was not very funny. The concept Willard demonstrating is called perceptual set. Perceptual set is a group of expectations that shape experience by making people especially sensitive to specific kinds of information or perceive things in a certain way, there was tendency for Willard to pay attention and laughing at the movie even though the movie was not funny and this was due to the statement made by his friend that"a new movie was the funniest he had seen in years" this is called perceptual set