When you look around the stadium, you see half the crowd is wearing the blue colors of the home team and a much smaller number is wearing the red colors of the away team. The way these colors seem to automatically group themselves together illustrates the Gestalt law of

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The Gestalt law of similarity explains how we perceive elements with a similar visual appearance (such as color) as part of a group or pattern. In this scenario, people wearing the same color shirts are perceived as belonging to the same group, illustrating this principle.  We group together the most similar elements. In this case we group people wearing blue with others who are wearing blue. We do the same for those wearing red.

When You Look Around the Stadium, You See Half the Crowd